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“Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel released a Peruvian immigrant who was one of the detainees responsible for launching a hunger and labor strike over Memorial Day weekend at the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey.”

“Advocates estimate at least 73 detained immigrants are participating in the hunger strike inside the Folkston D Ray James ICE processing center in south-east Georgia.”

“Several hundred had recently gone on hunger strike over rotten food, metallic-tasting drinking water, and a lack of access to medications, toilet paper and menstruation products.”

“In April, dozens of detainees launched a hunger strike to protest conditions.”

“We’ve led hunger strikes.”

““The high number of verified court orders since January 2025 raises serious concern,” said Eunice Cho, an immigrant and civil rights attorney who has extensively documented forced treatment on hunger strikers in ICE detention.”

“…n a declaration to lawyers, a 32-year-old Venezuelan man identified by a pseudonym, Xavier, who fits the profile of the man with kidney stones, said he had gone on a hunger strike because he was not getting any information about his case or about a court…”

“Critics say it is the reason why more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations, in the form of widespread hunger strikes.”

“True, they would be overwhelmed and pacified eventually: the SS carried sub-machine guns and their victims had nothing but their own bodies, weakened by hunger and thirst.”