"Immigrants have gone on hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside detention facilities, prompting officials to force-feed six of them through plastic nasal tubes at a Texas location," reports the AP.
Immigrants, "mostly from India and Cuba, have been striking there to protest what they say is rampant verbal abuse and threats of deportation from guards," the AP writes.
According to the AP, a federal judge has given the authorization to force feed the immigrants on hunger strike.
Those force fed have vomited and experienced nose bleeds, per the AP:
The men with nasal tubes are having persistent nose bleeds, and are vomiting several times a day, said Amrit Singh, whose two nephews from the Indian state of Punjab have been on hunger strike for about a month.
Human rights groups, and advocacy groups have condemned these actions:
Journalist Ben Norton has pointed out that this is similar to tactics at Guantanamo Bay, famous for force feeding prisoners on hunger strike:
Why should I support ICE again?
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