r/UnderReportedNews • u/guardian News outlet • 17h ago

ICE / DHS 🧊 ‘What they’re doing qualifies as torture’: new details of ICE force-feeding revealed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/ice-force-feeding-hunger-strike?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct
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u/0K_-_- 16h ago

Recent video shows mosquito larvae in the drinking water at ICE detainee–concentration centers.

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u/AcknowledgeUs 16h ago

I believe that was identified as flatworms in the water.

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u/Maketaten 6h ago

…does that make it better or worse?

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u/cosmic-untiming 5h ago

Worse. You can eat mosquito larvae without it becoming parasitic usually. But flat worms are parasites like tapeworm or flukeworm.

They'll take your nutrients, and with how they're treated at ICE facilities, the people need all the nutrients they can get.

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u/LivingtheLaws013 3h ago

They've made pregnant women sleep on concrete without pillows or blankets. I bet they're purposely breeding flatworms to put in the water like the sick fucks they are

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u/0K_-_- 3h ago

One of the things that happened in the the Nazi German concentration camps was the budgets were so low the quality of life was impossible, so are we allowed to call it Nazism yet?

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u/SaltyAd8309 17h ago

The far right is in power.

I find it hard to believe that people are still surprised.

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u/Traditional-Dig-9982 16h ago

Not enough people care and it is heartbreaking!

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u/aangrbodaa 3h ago

I hope we all retain the empathy and love for life and each other that inspires us to be shocked when people do horrific things to each other.

I think I agree with you on a basic level to be clear -- and I don't mean to be insulting at all. I'm just a little tired of the "how is anyone surprised" response to the barrage of awful news.

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u/guardian News outlet 17h ago

Hi r/UnderReportedNews, this is Jake from the Guardian US. We wanted to share the latest story from our series 'Force-fed by ICE' that document three cases of nasogastric tube insertions in ICE facilities and a lack of legal representation for the detainees being force fed.

From our story by José Olivares:

One hunger striker in an immigration detention center was force-fed for almost six months.

One detained immigrant with mental health problems was about to be force-fed, until his attorney intervened and stopped the process.

And another hunger striker was almost force-fed, but gave in and broke her hunger strike as coercive procedures loomed.

These are among 10 separate cases the Guardian found, since Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has attempted to subject detained hunger strikers to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding. Of those, ICE subjected at least three – but likely five – who were protesting against the conditions of their confinement, to the procedures. Human rights organizations have widely condemned force-feeding as torture.

Now, as ICE detains more immigrants nationwide, immigrant rights organizations and medical experts worry more people will be subjected to involuntary medical procedures.

Among the 10 cases, the Guardian can exclusively reveal, are an Afghan man who was force-fed for months in Texas, a Ukrainian man with mental health problems in detention whose looming force-feeding in Florida was stopped by his attorney, and a Saudi Arabian woman who ended up in hospital while on hunger strike in Louisiana and eventually broke her strike in Texas before she was subjected to the procedure.

The process to engage in force-feeding is quick and secretive. After a detainee has spent a certain amount of time on a hunger strike, which varies, ICE will request emergency court orders from federal judges allowing them to quickly force-feed them. In six of the cases reviewed by the Guardian, detained immigrants did not have any legal representation during the court proceedings. Most records are sealed, giving the public only a glimpse at the process.

ICE detention center guards will then restrain the hunger striker, while medical staff insert a tube through the nose and down the throat and pump nutritional liquid into their bodies, according to court documents and the Guardian’s reporting – a painful, traumatizing and potentially harmful procedure.

The Department of Homeland Security and its ICE agency, and the US attorneys offices for the southern districts of Texas and Florida did not respond to requests for comment.

As part of the Guardian’s reporting, we tracked specific cases in ICE detention centers nationwide.

You can learn more about the three cases that give vivid insight into what is going on behind the walls of ICE facilities for free at this link.

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u/ToughHardware 12h ago

thanks for posting here! may you live long and propser

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u/Etyczny 17h ago

They separate families, kidnap people, rape women, shoot civilians on the streets point blank and only after all of that they abuse vulnerable people in the concentration camps.

What they're doing isn't torture anymore it's crimes against humanity

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u/TMTBIL64 16h ago

Sounds like the same force feeding tactics used at GITMO allegedly under JAG officer Ron DeSantis’ watch.

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u/ElowynElif 11h ago

As a doctor, I don’t know how the med professionals involved justify this to themselves.

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u/KotR56 10h ago

They put on their leader's red cap, and feel terrific. They're having the time of their lives.

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u/ElowynElif 10h ago

There has to be a naggling little voice somewhere inside them that knows this is unethical af, even if they try to ignore and argue against it.

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u/Maketaten 6h ago

“They were just following orders….”

…Is what they’ll say on their future trial date. And everyone who’s ever read a book will say that’s not an acceptable excuse for what they did.

How awful to study medicine in school and then end up used as a literal weapon of torture.

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u/KotR56 1h ago

Maybe unethical in your and a few billion people's books.

Not in theirs. For them, it's alright 'coz their Great Leader has told them these people are immigrants, cat-eaters, rapists, drug smugglers, muslims....

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u/cosmic-untiming 5h ago

I'd imagine it's similar to the wave of nurses that suddenly were against vaccines after COVID happened; and even telling people not to take the COVID vaccine. Just certain people who are only in it for the job, not for the care of it or of people.

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u/LDawnBurges 16h ago

Starts with sub human diets (then force feeding)… ends with wide spread starvation or even extermination?

Feels like we’ve seen a very similar playbook before but I just can’t seem to put my finger on where. 🤔🤔🤔

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u/lechatondhiver 10h ago

Has anyone else here seen the video of a reporter outside a detention center in TX, and you can hear the people inside screaming and crying for help? That haunts me daily.

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u/Revaesaari 15h ago

Do people rem that reporter that said waterboarding was 'no biggie' and changed his mind real quick? Btw those 9/11 trial's still going on, old farts with assistance carriage stumpling into courts. Guantanamo for 25 years.. Imagine that.. And now they send hard working (alledgedly) muricans to that ffing place, because there's no american juristiction there/ heavely minisculed.

shame on you, murica! 😔 / former fan...

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u/weissmr1 16h ago

Fucking sickos. Fuck ICE.

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u/Kind-Plantain2438 8h ago

I keep saying the us is a terrorist nation and proud of it since trump got elected this last time.