Thursday, February 19, 2026

Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody - POLITICO

A Myanmar refugee, with a nursing five-month-old at home, whisked abruptly to Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A Massachusetts woman in her third trimester, held under ICE's guard at a hospital after experiencing medical distress in ICE detention. An Indian national who is three months pregnant and whose weight dropped to 90 pounds while in an ICE facility. 

Federal judges are sounding alarms about the Trump administration's treatment of pregnant and nursing detainees in ICE custody — and the administration has given the courts conflicting, unclear answers about whether it is following its own policies that sharply restrict those detentions…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/pregnant-nursing-ice-detainees-00784683 


 

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