DeLauro Responds to CT Insider Reporting on Children in Federal Custody: “This is child abuse.”

Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) responded to reporting from Connecticut Insider which details how dozens of migrant children in Connecticut, some as young as five, were detained by federal agencies and kept separate from their families for hundreds of days:

"President Trump promised his immigration enforcement agenda would target violent criminals. Instead, a five-year-old child, and dozens more like her, was detained and given only one hour a week to visit with her mother. This lasted 118 days.

"It was not because she did not have a parent, it was not because she broke some law - she is five. It was deliberate cruelty, as the Trump administration prioritizes detention and deportation quotas over basic decency and due process. This is child abuse. The result is now dozens of traumatized children in Connecticut, possibly hundreds, with thousands more spread nationwide across this failed system.

"President Trump and Stephen Miller were the architects behind the zero-tolerance family separation policy during the first Trump administration. They are intent on continuing this inhumane policy, just in a new form. We cannot allow this. I am demanding answers and will seek a full accounting of every child still needlessly detained. The administration must reunite these children with their families without delay."