These have been tough times for the mental health of Newark’s Hispanic community, more than 100,000 people with Spanish-language roots who’ve been hit by the immigration crackdown and pause in SNAP benefits.

“The kinds of trauma that people are experiencing, kids experiencing — getting snatched out of their homes, off the street, coming out of hearings,” Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said, referring to the crackdown in particular. “It causes mental anguish on top of the other mental anguish that you’re going to have trying to figure out how to eat, how you’re going to get a job, all these other kinds of things.”

So Baraka and others welcomed the opening of a bilingual mental health clinic on Thursday in the city’s Black and brown Lincoln Park neighborhood.

The clinic is a joint pro

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