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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker in Texas

newsSep 5, 2026183,868

A federal judge in the southern district of Texas gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement permission in recent weeks to involuntarily feed a Cuban detainee at the Montgomery ICE processing center near Houston, including by fitting a surgical feeding tube without his consent, court orders seen by the Guardian show. The records indicate ICE followed through with nasogastric force-feeding in August and successfully asked the court this week to extend the order; most of the detainee’s records are sealed and the Guardian is not naming him. The new order specifically authorized a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, a surgical procedure that creates a permanent abdominal feeding tube, a step the Guardian has not identified in other force-feeding cases it reviewed. The Department of Homeland Security said the man had “resumed eating and drinking again” and was not being force-fed but did not answer how many times he had been fed or whether he broke his hunger strike after the latest order. Savannah Kumar, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said the authorization to cut into a protester’s body to insert a stomach tube highlights “the horrors happening outside our view in ICE detention centers,” as advocacy groups express alarm over a rising number of involuntary medical procedures since January 2025.

Molly Crabapple
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Laura Jedeed282

I recently spent several months caring for a loved one with terminal colorectal cancer. In his last two months of life, he had a gastric tube Usually I avoid calling for violence on the Internet for obvious reasons, but both the judge and the agent should be publicly executed

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH58

Who are the MAGA/MAHA health workers forcing medical procedures on detainees in ICE detention centers, including force feeding, intravenous forced hydration, & involuntary blood draws? May they forever be ostracized for their actions Nazi physicians did the same to Jews in concentration camps

Olivia Hill34

This is what ICE is. Nothing short of full eradication and convicting every decision maker that's supported them is acceptable.

Ham Roids16

Hey so does anyone remember when we supposedly needed informed consent for medical procedures??? If they can do this, what else can they do? How much closer are we to gas chambers than you thought?

Fright Merkin13

When I had a consult about brain surgery and expressed concern about a difficult recovery, the surgeon was like "pfft, it's not like *abdominal surgery*" which has made me terrified of abdominal surgery ever since. So I think this is extremely reckless and needs punishment.

malort d'arthur🏳️‍⚧️12

this is how hunger strikes go now. they will force you to eat, even if it kills you. your own body is used against you, you do not even get to control if you eat. this is the reason they taught us nonviolent resistance works. because it doesn't.

Jon Phillips11

Come the tribunals, it's imperative that no ICE agent or collaborator be allowed to ever breathe free air again, and for them to understand that this is the compromise position.

Curb Your Malthusiasm10

We’re going to have to invent some new tortures for some of these folks

mallow10

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Sluggo Smith6

Not really a proponent of capital punishment or prisons in general, but yes, these men deserve the harshest sentences we can give.

Aaron Parnas
@aaronparnas.bsky.social

NEWS: Trump is not a happy camper after a rough night in the courts. Three courts. Three major losses that upend his agenda. Hegseth grows paranoid and begins mass polygraphs among generals and admirals. ICE cuts open detainee's stomach to insert feeding tube and force feed him without consent.

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