Calls for change at Adelanto ICE facility grow after some detainees allegedly still on hunger strike

Calls for change at Adelanto ICE facility grow after some detainees allegedly still on hunger strike

Local leaders are calling for change as a group of detained immigrants are allegedly still on a hunger strike at the Adelanto ICE processing center.

The Hunger Strike at Adelanto Detention Center Is a Warning We Cannot Ignore

By Javier Hernandez, Executive Director, Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice The hunger strike currently unfolding inside the Adelanto Detention Center should alarm every person in California. When people are willing to risk their health and their lives to protest the conditions they are living under, that is not a political stunt. That is desperation. That is a warning. For nearly a decade, our organization, alongside a broad coalition of ad…