White House border czar Tom Homan has warned that the Trump administration may take legal action in order to “force-feed” illegal immigrants at a New Jersey detention center who are five days into a hunger strike.

“Hunger strikes never work,” Homan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening. “We’re not going to change what we do because someone goes on a hunger strike. A matter of fact, if it gets bad enough, and then physicians feel like they’re putting themselves in extreme danger, medical danger, then we’ll force-feed them. We’ll get a court order and force-feed. They can, you know, put themselves in a position where they’re, you know, not eating, but it’s not going to cause them to be released.”