Ice force-feeds immigrants inside Texas detention center

• Six detainees on hunger strike fed through nasal tube
• Nearly 30 detainees from India and Cuba refusing to eat
• Force-feeding: what is the experience like?

Federal immigration officials are force-feeding six immigrants through plastic nasal tubes during a hunger strike that has gone on for a month inside a Texas detention facility, it emerged on Thursday.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) says 11 detainees at the El Paso processing center have been refusing food, some for more than 30 days.

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