Tong spoke as he announced his latest legal broadside against President Donald Trump's policies in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood. Connecticut is joining a lawsuit against new rules that would require immigration-status verification at health clinics and other safety-net programs.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha co-led a lawsuit against the Trump administration on July 21 over a new policy meant to bar undocumented immigrants from accessing “critical” public safety net programs.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell sued the Trump administration Monday over a new policy meant to bar undocumented immigrants from accessing “critical” public safety net programs.