Force-Fed by ICE

ncr100

Horrific details inside the article, be warned

culi

I think every American should also read the ACLU's report ( Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention ). https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati... Some of the issues it highlighted: - forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is the only way to get enough food to live. And if you refuse to work or try to protest, ICE doesn't have to give an excuse to send you into solitary confinement. CoreCivic sells this labor to companies - extensive use of solitary confinement often for "minor disciplinary infractions or as a form of retaliation for participating in hunger strikes or for submitting complaints" - dozens of documented deaths from forced labor and medical neglect All of these conditions have only gotten much worse.

tartoran

Wow, this is horrific treatment. I hope to see the day the perpetrators will punished.

freediddy

I'm actually confused as to what the policy should be. Should ICE or whomever else just like the people on hunger strikes die? Or should they continue force-feeding the people on hunger strikes? Neither seem like a good solution but I don't know what the alternatives are, besides giving in to the hunger strikers, which is most likely never going to happen otherwise everyone would hunger strike to get whatever they want.

SpaceL10n

You don't get to choose when you ultimately go in a free country. You must stay alive and work so the rest of us can be free of the guilt that we let you down.

profdevloper

Imagine how terrible it must be to live in Kurdistan or Afghanistan that these guys are willing to be tortured to remain in the United States.

krunck

> But as Choli’s hunger strike went on, it threatened his health and also, in the government’s opinion, posed “a serious threat to the security and good order” of the facility, ICE argued in court filings. They call it "order". It's all about control. It always is. The Trumps, the Zuckerbergs, the ICE stooges. Their lives are about controlling others.