Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and state Attorney General Bob Ferguson wrote a letter to Trump officials, demanding an end to the family separation policy.
In the letter, addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Inslee and Ferguson said there are more than 200 people detained at the Federal Detention Center, SeaTac facility near Seattle.
“Many of these detainees are parents who were separated from their children by border officials,” they wrote. “And many came to this county seeking asylum.”
The state officials ask about the whereabouts and conditions of these children, and question why the parents are being held in prison during the resolution of their asylum claims.
“You and the Trump Administration took their kids away and are detaining them separately,” they wrote. “You did not even have the decency to allow many parents to say goodbye to their children.”