Communities Under Fear explores how immigration enforcement practices are unintentionally eroding public trust, weakening public safety, and disrupting everyday life for legal residents, citizens, and local businesses. Drawing from firsthand conversations with police professionals and corporate chaplaincy experience, this article calls for accountability, clarity, and community-centered approaches to safety.

We don’t argue to understand; we argue to survive. We don’t defend ideas; we defend our sense of meaning. Every issue feels existential, every election apocalyptic, every headline a new tremor under our feet. What’s happening to us isn’t just political or cultural. It’s deeply psychological—and, at its core, spiritual.