Detained Migrants Being Force Fed

Photo by… me!

Four migrant detainees at the El Paso Processing Center are being force fed, the BBC reports.

The migrants, men from India and Cuba, undertook a hunger strike in protest of conditions at the facility. They allege that guards verbally abuse the detainees.

After the men missed their 9th consecutive meal, ICE initiated “hunger-strike protocols” and secured a court-order to permit force feeding.

These men are being fed by tubes inserted through their noses, through which nutrients are pumped into their stomachs. This is non-consensual feeding.

I wondered if there might be a video explaining this force feeding process. There is. Here is Yasiin Bey, better known as Mos Def, voluntarily undergoing the procedure. He did this back in 2013 to bring attention to the force feeding of detainees in Guantanamo Bay who were on a hunger strike. Warning, this video is not for the squeamish.

-KitJ