HARTFORD -- At least two children who were separated from their parents at the Southern border are already here in Connecticut.
President Trump made good on his promise to sign an executive order to stop the practice.
It was an executive order Governor Dannel Malloy said he wasn't sure the president would sign.
"This is about as low as America could possibly have gone in this decade," Malloy added.
Gov. Malloy called the president a liar and a child abuser.
"Your head has to spin listening to all the lies told by the president," he said.
"I'm happy that the President of the United States who can only be described as a child abuser has seen how dangerous what he has wrought. He’s also lied about it routinely so I can’t be confident that he is not lying about signing an executive order," said Gov. Malloy.
First Lady Cathy Malloy also spoke out Wednesday.
"I am angry; I am sickened, and I can no longer remain silent," said Cathy. "The scene at the southern border is eerily similar to some of the darkest days in our nation’s history – including the internment of Japanese Americans and government-sanctioned segregation against people of color. We are better than this, as Connecticut has shown. We welcomed refugees when other states turned them away. We passed the TRUST Act to bring our undocumented neighbors out of the shadows and made our communities safer. And we made higher education accessible and available to Dreamers. Those policies not only make Connecticut a better, more welcoming state, they make our communities safer, and they should be a model for the nation."
Trump administration officials say they have no clear plan yet on how to reunite the thousands of children separated from their families at the border since the implementation of a zero-tolerance policy in which anyone caught entering the U.S. illegally is criminally prosecuted.
"This policy is relatively new," said Steven Wagner, an acting assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services "We're still working through the experience of reunifying kids with their parents after adjudication."
Federal officials say there are some methods parents can use to try to find their children: hotlines to call and an email address for those seeking information. But advocates say it's not that simple.