The ICE pandemic

Entire families sheltering in their homes, afraid to go outside. Children getting their lessons on iPad screens. Pregnant women skipping doctors’ appointments and considering home birth. A pervasive sense of confusion and terror — a feeling that “nothing is safe.”

These may sound like scenes from 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools and workplaces and sent families indoors, fearful of contracting a deadly disease. They’re also stories I heard in the last week, talking to doctors...