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SOUTH FLORIDA, JUL 31 – Pedro Hernández and other detainees protest substandard food, hygiene, and medical care at the center, prompting emergency calls for reform from Democratic leaders and advocates.

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A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its ninth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions. One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continues to refuse food. His wife, Daimarys Hernández, said she’s terrified for his health and fears he could die in custody, or be deported back to Cuba, alone. Pedro He…

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The 44-year-old Cuban migrant Pedro Lorenzo Concepción is in custody in the swamps of Florida, in the southeast of the United States (USA), in the improvised detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz”, where he started a hunger strike 10 days ago. READ ALSO: Cuba receives 118 migrants repatriated from the United States in 2025 Pedro shares a cell with 31 other migrants. The weakness prevents him from opening the water knob for himself; his c…

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Pedro Lorenzo Concepción’s voice seems to sink, sinking among the vast wetlands populated by mosquitoes, pythons or alligators that inhabit the Everglades. He comes out on the phone from the very Alligator Alcatraz, the most feared migrant detention center that the Republicans built in the backyard of Florida. To the question of how he is, he will answer that he obviously is not well, today he turns nine days on hunger strike. Continue reading

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NBC New York broke the news in New York, United States on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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