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Federal judges decry ICE's treatment of pregnant and nursing women

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published February 20, 2026 at 12:04 PM EST

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Pregnant asylum-seeker comforts her 2-year-old son who was not feeling well, inside the Miami-area motel room where she and her two children are living after her husband was deported to Nicaragua, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Federal judges have been sounding the alarm about the way pregnant and nursing women are being treated in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Politico’s Kyle Cheney about current conditions for women in detention facilities and the Trump administration’s response to concerns about them.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.