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U.S. immigration system creating generational trauma: Jayapal
Jayapal highlighted severe conditions within detention facilities, pointing to reports of pregnant women suffering miscarriages, lactating mothers being denied basic care, and the ongoing confinement of medically vulnerable individuals and primary caregivers.
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Staff Reporter - Fri, 21, Aug 2026
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Pramila Jayapal / X/ @RepJayapal
Rep. Pramila Jayapal criticized the U.S. immigration system, warning that current detention policies are inflicting irreversible, long-term damage on American families.
Following a visit to an immigration court adjacent to a detention facility, Jayapal recounted listening to the testimony of a 17-year-old U.S. citizen whose mother, a Mexican detainee and primary caregiver, faces deportation while the family’s father undergoes chemotherapy for cancer.
“Listening to the 17-year-old just talk about the impact on her and her kids, I couldn’t stop thinking about the generational trauma that we’re creating ... for these generations of kids when U.S. citizen kids, when their parents are picked up, when they’re separated,” Jayapal said.
Jayapal highlighted severe conditions within detention facilities, pointing to reports of pregnant women suffering miscarriages, lactating mothers being denied basic care, and the ongoing confinement of medically vulnerable individuals and primary caregivers.
Our current immigration system is creating generational trauma for children and families. pic.twitter.com/vvg7UrwJRq
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) August 20, 2026
U.S. immigration system creating generational trauma: Jayapal.
“None of these people should be in detention,” Jayapal said, pointing out that safer alternatives exist. “There is no reason for any of these caregivers, primary caregivers, no reason for them to be in detention.”
The congresswoman accused the Trump administration of prioritizing private gain over public safety, accusing the private prison industry of profiting from the mass incarceration of roughly 65,000 detainees nightly.
“It’s all a giant money scheme — a money scheme to take your money and put it into incarcerating 65,000 people every single night across the country in these private, for-profit detention facilities,” she said.
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