Attorney: Officials force-feeding immigrant on hunger strike
Cedar Attanasio, Martha Mendoza and Garance Burke, Associated Press Updated 6:29 pm CDT, Thursday, August 15, 2019
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The text was alarming: "today medical start force feeding only with me. They put the pipe in my nose 3 time. My nose is bleeding and pain."
Attorney Linda Corchado had feared this might happen when she heard her clients on hunger strike inside an immigrant detention center had been forced to receive fluid through IV drips two weeks ago.
On Thursday she said one of the men, an asylum seeker from India, was brought out to her in a wheelchair with tubes threaded through his nose, and he told her he had been force-fed.
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