Weighing Just 107 Pounds and at Risk of Death, an Asylum Seeker on Hunger Strike Finally Gets His Freedom

Two weeks after an El Paso federal magistrate blamed Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the agency’s treatment of Indian humankinds hunger-striking for their liberty, one of the asylum seekers has been released. On Thursday, 33 -year-old Ajay Kumar went out of an ICE detention center greeted by a small group of supporters. After more than a year in ICE custody and 76 days of refusing to eat, Kumar weighed simply 107 pounds. “I’m feeling very good, sir, because I’ve got my freedom and I’ve waited a long time for this, ” Kumar said in an interview minutes after his liberate. Kumar and five other Indian humankinds began a hunger strike on July 9 to demand that they be set free while magistrates considered their asylum claims. Kumar and two others were eventually fed through a nasogastric tubing by ICE for more than three weeks in August and September. They have described the force-feeding as…View Original Post

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