Dozens of immigrants who are in the Detention Center of Adelanto, in California, decided to start a hunger strike claiming that they keep them in deplorable conditions.
"We know we have rights, and that is why we are demanding our rights," Carlos Villegas, one of the detainees in Adelanto, said by telephone.
The inmates assure that between 60 and 100 people will join the protest as they ensure that the poor conditions in which they live include poor diet, confinement, inadequate medical care and obstacles to communicate with family members and their lawyers.
"There are no doctors here," Roberto Vargas, who will also join the strike, said in a telephone conversation, "Two days ago my chest started to hurt, I know how you feel when you are having an attack. and they do not care."
Rodrigo, another immigrant who was for more than a year in Adelanto, corroborated to NBC4 sister station Telemundo 52 the conditions faced by the detainees, especially with food and medical care.
Teresa Borden, a spokesperson for CHIRLA, affirms that this situation is largely due to the fact that the administrators of these detention centers are private entities, contracted by the federal government. It alleges that they are not interested in the welfare of the inmates.
"These hunger strikes happen because this is the only way that people have to complain about the terrible situation they are experiencing," Borden said.
