ICE Detainees Refusing Food to Protest Conditions, Advocates Say

Hunger strike at Michigan immigrant detention center

Hundreds of immigrant detainees at ICE’s North Lake Processing Center have staged a hunger strike in protest of abusive conditions and excessive lengths of detention.

ICE detainees refusing food to protest conditions, advocates say

DETROIT — Detainees at the privately run ICE detention center in west Michigan have gone without food for several days to protest poor conditions at the facility, according to attorneys and an anti-ICE advocacy group, though an ICE spokesperson denied…

Reports of abuse pour out of federal immigration detention centers

Hunger strikes, photos of bruised detainees, congressional investigations—allegations of neglect, abuse, and wretched conditions are piling up inside federal immigration detention centers as the Trump administration continues its mass deportation campaign. Yesterday, detainees at the North Lake Processing Center, a privately run detention center in Baldwin, Michigan, announced they were launching a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions…

Hundreds of ICE detainees launch hunger strike in Michigan

The protest began Monday and involves detainees refusing food and, in some cases, work assignments.

Hundreds of detained immigrants launch hunger strike at Michigan ICE facility

At the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, the biggest in the Midwest with 1,800 beds, several hundred detained immigrants started a hunger strike on Monday, refusing to eat or work, according to immigrant rights advocates and relatives of the detainees in Michigan.In a press release shared...

Protestors gather outside Baldwin facility as immigrant detainees held by ICE launch hunger strike

Protestors outside the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan. April 21, 2026 | Photo by Erick Dia Veliz/Michigan AdvanceAt the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, the biggest in the Midwest with 1,800 beds, several hundred detained immigrants started a hunger strike on Monday, refusing to eat or work, according to immigrant rights advocates and relatives of the detainees in Michigan. In a press release shared by the activist…