Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/08/trump-administration-parents-arrested


month-old daughter, LT was running out of options.

Her baby, who was allergic to formula and had other food sensitivities, had been vomiting constantly and needed breastmilk. But the government refused to release LT – an asylum seeker from Haiti – on bond. So, the family’s pediatrician petitioned the government to allow her to pump and mail her breastmilk from the Dilley detention center in Texas to her baby in Florida. That request was denied.

Desperate, LT asked whether her child could be brought into the detention center to be with her. The government denied that, too, she said, on the grounds that the child, who is a US citizen, couldn’t be kept at an immigration detention center.

“I’m terrified of losing my baby,” she said.