Democrats Urge Trump Administration To Stop ICE Arrests Of Pregnant Women [View all]
Source: Huff Post
Sep 18, 2025, 09:09 AM EDT | Updated 34 minutes ago
Nearly 30 Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Trump administration urging the Department of Homeland Security to stop detaining pregnant immigrant women in the wake of recent reports that suggest an uptick in immigration arrests of pregnant, postpartum and nursing women.
Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) co-authored the letter sent to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday morning. The letter, shared exclusively with HuffPost, was signed by 27 other Senate Democrats who demanded that the Trump administration share information about how many pregnant and postpartum women are currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and what medical care, if any, they’re receiving.
Prior to President Donald Trump taking office in January, ICE was required to report the number and treatment of pregnant, postpartum and nursing women in immigration custody. Under Trump’s administration and his mass deportation agenda, that reporting has stopped and critical oversight departments, including DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, have effectively shut down.
“At this time, we do not know how many pregnant women are in ICE custody, whether U.S. citizen babies have been born in ICE custody, and what provisions have been made for mothers’ and children’s health, safety, and wellbeing,” according to the letter. Murray previously pushed Congress to take action on safeguarding detained pregnant women, introducing a bill during Trump’s first administration to stop the shackling and mistreatment of pregnant women in ICE custody. She reintroduced the bill earlier this year.
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Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2025/09/18/68cc057fe4b0aa8d99fe7bf9.pdf
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