Immigrants detained by ICE on hunger strike in New Jersey could be force-fed
The Border Czar assures that immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall Center could be force-fed if they continue on hunger strike
Faced with the hunger strike declared by immigrants detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) at the Delaney Hall Center in Newark, New Jersey, Tom Homan, head of White House border policy, warned that, if necessary, these people could be force-fed.
During an interview with the Fox News television network, the man identified as “Border Czar” stated that, under no circumstances, will federal agencies renounce the president's order to continue moving forward with the strategy of deporting from United States territory the largest number of detained foreigners lacking legal status.
"I've been doing this since 1984. Hunger strikes never work. We're not going to change what we do because someone goes on a hunger strike.
And, in fact, if the situation gets bad enough and the prisoners feel that they are putting themselves in serious danger, in danger to their health, then we will get a court order and we will force-feed them,” he emphasized.
Homan even described as false the complaints arising from some lawyers and relatives of immigrants deprived of their liberty regarding the alleged poor state of the Newark Detention Center facilities.
“They are better than any state prison, county jail or federal detention center,” he said.
Regarding the demonstrations of support that foreigners detained by ICE have received, after dozens of people have prostrated themselves outside the building where they are being held until they are sent back to their nations of origin, the head of the White House's Enforcement and Deportation Operations described these actions as inadequate for the future of the nation.
"They are a shame to this nation. They are there disrespecting and attacking those men and women of ICE who carry a gun every day [and] go out to protect people they don't even know or will never meet," he said.
And to generate more controversy about what is happening inside the Delaney Hall Center, Markwayne Mullin, Secretary of Homeland Security, turned to the platform
"There were only a handful of people who refused to eat because they wanted their ethnic food. Well, let them go back to their country and get the food they want. The fact is, we are giving them the calories they want. This is not a Holiday Inn. Hey, we are giving them hygiene," he wrote.