Photo provided by Custom and Border Protection to reporter on tour of detention facility in McAllen, Texas. Reporters were not allowed to take their own photos (Wikimedia).
With the help of Connecticut attorneys, two children who were taken from their parents at the U.S.- Mexico border and sent to a Connecticut facility are suing the federal government for the ​“psychological and mental harm” caused by the separations.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Connecticut Legal Services, and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale will hold a press conference in New Haven Friday morning to explain the lawsuits.
