Over the years, hunger strikes have been a tool used to bring attention to what's happening inside immigrant detention facilities.
Over the years, hunger strikes have been a tool used to bring attention to what’s happening inside immigrant detention facilities.
The agency cited an anonymous source who allegedly told staff “that an attorney instructed a detainee to initiate a hunger strike,” ICE spokesman Jonathan Moor said in a statement. He declined to provide any details about the source.“We have to keep in mind people’s safety in these kinds of settings,” said Moor, who did not provide any information about the attorney.
“This was something that was organized by immigrants at the detention center and was led in large part by black immigrants,” said Lisa Knox, managing attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza. “I think the fact that ICE is framing them as people who are engaging in violence and invoking these ‘outside agitators’ tropes is frankly racist.”Across the country, 781 immigrants and 44 ICE employees at detention centers have tested positive for the coronavirus.
On Thursday, 77 detainees at the facility did not eat dinner, according to Moor. The next day, 78 did not attend breakfast and 83 did not attend lunch. Of those, 21 detainees made hunger strike claims to staff; the rest said they just didn’t want to eat their facility-provided meals, he said. “However, claims from external groups say their concerns are regarding ICE’s response to mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” he said.
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