'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions
Source: NBC News
Aug. 1, 2025, 4:45 PM EDT / Source: NBC Miami
A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named Alligator Alcatraz has entered its tenth 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 shes terrified for his health and fears he could die in custody, or be deported back to Cuba, alone. My husband was in prison. We make mistakes, but we learn from them and fix things, she told NBC6.
Pedro Hernández, who came to the U.S. from Cuba in 2006, was detained in July during a routine check-in with ICE in Miramar. He hasnt been home since.
In a recorded phone call from inside the facility, he pleaded for help: Weve all been hungry since Tuesday. Im not going to eat another plate of food until they show us respect," Hernández said.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/alligator-alcatraz-hunger-strike-detainees-protest-conditions-rcna222554

riversedge
(77,764 posts)RedArkGuy
(834 posts). . . to what these people, most of whom have never committed a serious crime, are going through. But those detained making every one of these camps into Fort Chaffees will not bode well for the Trump administration. Civil disobedience can be practiced in these gulags and the word can be gotten out about their conditions.
Jim__
(14,920 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,136 posts)It's not the first time. This country has "been there done that" but doesn't want to teach about it in history.
Former Congressman Ron Dellums helped to spearhead reparations for the nightmare that the Japanese-Americans experienced 80-some years ago.
riversedge
(77,764 posts)raccoon
(32,020 posts)orangecrush
(26,700 posts)Bayard
(26,974 posts)And solve the problem of warehousing them. I hope members of Congress get in there and document conditions. Eat what inmates have to eat.
PatSeg
(50,939 posts)The private prison industry needs bodies. Trump's policies are a windfall for them and they undoubtedly have been supportive of him and other republican politicians. There should be a law against private prisons.
Marcuse
(8,682 posts)
PatSeg
(50,939 posts)Real life "Demolition Man".
We live in very scary times.
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Hekate
(99,410 posts)
twodogsbarking
(15,756 posts)BoRaGard
(7,532 posts)stinking evil
flashman13
(1,493 posts)should go on hunger strikes. It is the main weapon political prisoners have to fight their oppressors. Hunger strikes have a way of focusing world attention. The International Red Cross must demand to inspect the camps and get testimony from the inmates.
Quanto Magnus
(1,255 posts)If anything, they'll wish for a bunch of people in there to die.
Liberty Belle
(9,690 posts)BumRushDaShow
(160,136 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143490543
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143497366
The most recent filed by the ACLU, immigrant rights groups. and a set of immigrants, explicitly noting the conditions.
But for the most part, the threads got yawns.
