Michael Rock is reporting for Kings County Politics downstate Democrat U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney has issued a report highlighting the physical and verbal abuse of pregnant detainees by federal immigration authorities. The report, “Care of Pregnant Women in DHS Facilities,” also documented that agents of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained thousands of pregnant women while subjecting them to medical neglect, posting of images and information about detainees on social media, and putting them in solitary confinement. “This independent report documents troubling instances of inadequate care and complaints of mistreatment of these vulnerable pregnant women,” said Maloney, chair of the House Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee. She co-published the Government Accountability Office report with U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. A spokesperson for ICE denied any wrongdoing on the agency’s part, suggesting the outrage over the report’s findings was baseless. “ICE is committed to ensuring that those in our custody reside in safe, secure, and humane environments and under appropriate conditions of confinement...,” an agency spokesperson said. Read the full story at kingscountypolitics [dot] com.