“They have tubes that have been shoved through their noses … It’s extremely painful, and it’s against their will,” Ruby Kaur said of the recent action taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to feed detainees on a hunger strike.
Last month, nine individuals refused to eat in protest of how they were being treated at an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas. Over the weekend ICE confirmed that they are now feeding the detainees without their consent after the detainees missed nine consecutive meals.
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