White House border czar Tom Homan has warned that the Trump administration may take legal action in order to “force-feed” illegal immigrants at a New Jersey detention center who are five days into a hunger strike.“Hunger strikes never work,” Homan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening. “We’re not going to change what we do because someone goes on a hunger strike. A matter of fact, if it gets bad enough, and then physicians feel like they’re putting themselves in extreme danger, medical danger, then we’ll force-feed them. We’ll get a court order and force-feed. They can, you know, put themselves in a position where they’re, you know, not eating, but it’s not going to cause them to be released.”Democratic elected officials showed up outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark on Memorial Day and accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement of holding hundreds of detainees in “deplorable” conditions, which led some to go on a hunger and work strike last Friday. All detainees are illegal immigrants who are in the midst of deportation proceedings in court or awaiting deportation transportation.
House and Senate Democrats alleged that the food, medical care, and legal proceedings that detainees inside Delaney Hall received were unacceptable.
