House Dem Calls For Reparations For Children And Families ‘Traumatized’ By ICE | EUROtoday

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on Friday known as for federal reparations for the youngsters and households who’ve been “traumatized” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers amid the chaotic and deadly enforcement of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

Jayapal made her case throughout a congressional listening to known as “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Children,” which centered on his nationwide ICE deployments and the necessity for “defensive reform” to forestall federal brokers from persevering with to inflict emotional injury.

“And then we also need offensive actions around prosecutions,” the Washington Democrat added Friday. “We need real accountability, because at the end of the day, the people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted.”

She continued, “They need to be brought before us and they need to be held [to] account for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this.”

Trump launched mass deportations shortly after taking workplace final yr, deploying ICE to states throughout the nation. Two U.S. residents, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, had been fatally shot earlier this yr throughout encounters with federal immigration brokers in Minnesota.

The variety of kids in immigration detention, in the meantime, has skyrocketed. Federal immigration brokers arrested greater than 3,800 kids between January and October 2025, per the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School and an evaluation by The Guardian.

Among these kids, 1,700 have been held at services such because the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas — which reportedly operates below nightmarish circumstances — together with 5-year-old Liam Ramos, two 5-year-old twins and a 2-month-old toddler.

Jayapal on Friday known as for these for-profit immigration detention facilities to be abolished.

“The enormity in the abuses of the violations are difficult to capture,” she stated. “And I think we’re going to have to continue to make these connections for the country about how on every … level, we are seeing these continue. We have to continue to call out the profiteering.”

The former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus added the U.S. ought to “outlaw private prisons for immigrants,” stating they “should not be there for profiteering for big corporations that then channel those profits back into this administration that facilitates them.”

Jayapal was expectedly slammed for her remarks on Fox News.

Contributor Sara Carter argued that the federal government ought to pay reparations, however solely to authorized U.S. residents, and openly said that the Democratic Party ought to foot the invoice — for the supposed “atrocities” they’ve dedicated by supporting immigrants.