By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
November 6, 2015
Immigrant advocates say hundreds of men have launched a hunger strike at an immigrant detention center in the high desert city of Adelanto, Calif., making it the fourth immigrant detention facility in the U.S. where protesting detainees have refused food in recent weeks.
Attorneys for some of the men and advocates with a detention center visitation group say more than 300 men stopped eating Oct. 30 to protest conditions at the center. They said another group of detainees joined them in the strike on Wednesday.
Shannah Abdulluah, an asylum-seeker from Ghana who has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since he asked for amnesty at the Mexican border 11 months ago, said he and about 90 other men joined the hunger strike this week.[...]
Read the full article:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-immigrant-hunger-strike-20151106-story.html
Sign a petition supporting immigrant detainees organizing for their rights:
http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/portfolio/asylumseekersdetained/
For earlier hunger strike coverage, go to:
http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-hunger-strike-you-havent-heard-about.html
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