A U.S. government watchdog agency has launched an investigation in the wake of AP reporting on complaints about the force-feeding of hunger strikers at an immigration detention center in Texas. garanceburke reports:
FILE - This June 2018 file photo shows protesters walking along Montana Avenue outside the El Paso Processing Center, in El Paso, Texas. On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, a U.S. government watchdog agency said they have launched an investigation in the wake of an Associated Press report revealing complaints about how immigration authorities treated hunger strikers at this facility.
The Office of Inspector General for U.S. Department of Homeland Security this month interviewed two Indian men who said they had suffered mental and physical anguish when they were force-fed through nasal tubes at the immigration detention facility, the men’s attorneys said. Nearly 50 Democratic lawmakers called for a watchdog investigation soon thereafter, asking that the inspector general investigate conditions at ICE facilities and policies surrounding the involuntary feeding of immigrant detainees.
In interviews at the detention facility earlier this month, the inspector general’s office asked Jasvir Singh and Rajandeep Singh, Sikh asylum seekers from India, how many times a day the detainees had been force-fed, what kind of medical care they got, whether they were tied down and whether cameras had recorded it all, according to the two men’s attorneys.
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