A year ago, in the weeks before school returned to session, the Dallas County Health and Human Services’ immunization clinic on North Stemmons Freeway would have been packed. Often, an overflowing morning waiting room resulted in families being given a number in line and told to come back that afternoon to get their children vaccinated.

That didn’t happen this year, though, said Director Philip Huang.

“We do everything we can to make vaccines easy to get,” Huang said. “We've been doing a lot of the back-to-school vaccination [events] … We're doing one day a week now, and we're seeing declining numbers.”

On one hand, Huang chalks the attendance dips up to community concerns surrounding federal immigration enforcement. While Dallas County Health and Human Services does not ask about or

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