In New Jersey, Detainees at Delaney Hall have ended their hunger strike in the face of extreme retaliation from ICE and GEO Group, but the struggle continues. During a Father’s Day vigil outside the ICE jail, an alleged employee of the facility hit a woman with his car. Employee or not, this is an outrage. Sally Pillay, an advocate with Eyes on ICE, said: “Because of the intimidation tactics, the disciplinary consequences for folks to be placed in segregation, (detainees) have now resorted to going back to job assignments and eating.”

In California, ICE has deported at least one person from the Adelanto ICE jail as an apparent result of the ongoing hunger strike. Kyron Shakeel Swaso told LA Taco that he began organizing the hunger strike there; the strike initially consisted of about 20 people, then grew to at least 100. LA Taco summarizes the retaliation Swaso described, including GEO staff leaving burritos on strikers’ beds, filing charges against Swaso, and turning up to work in military-style fatigues. LA Taco reports: “The following night, Swaso was transferred to ERO Camp East Montana in Texas after refusing to sign for deportation, then to Louisiana, before being deported to Belize. Swaso shared… some serious allegations, including the firing of two GEO staff members after they offered him assistance, and provided information about Adelanto’s plan to deport him before it occurred.”

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)