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September 28, 2018

Immigrant Fathers & Children on Hunger Strike in Texas Detention Center
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Elsewhere in Texas, immigrant rights groups say some 70 immigrant
fathers and some of their children have launched a hunger strike, as
they languish inside the Karnes County detention center, a for-profit
immigration jail under contract with ICE. The fathers on strike had been
previously separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border under
the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" crackdown. Now reunited
behind bars, fathers and their children are demanding immediate freedom.
This is one of the hunger strikers, speaking by phone with the group
Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders.

Father in ICE detention: [Translated] "Today we started a hunger strike.
Our children are with us. They are not attending their school; nor they
are eating. And we are afraid that ICE is going to retaliate against us
and separate us again, as they separated 16 parents on August 15th. … I
don't understand the laws of this country. They are unjust. The majority
of the parents who were reunited were freed. And only a few of us are
here being punished. This is unfair."



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