Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show medical procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws Homeland security officials under the Trump administration have quietly attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in US immigrant detention to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding, a Guardian investigation has found. In 2025 and 2026, officials had definitely performed the procedures on at least three detained immigrants and like…
This is a crime against humanity on so many levels. (on every level) Trump and his administration are going to be hanging from a rope when this is all over.
Yeah, we have to start to inure the citizenry to the concept that we will require a vast number of executions for treason when this is over, just like the end of Nazi Germany. Nobody is going to like it, but purging the MAGA cancer from our government and our society is the sign of a sane, healthy, strong nation that wants to provide its citizens with a positive future.
We also have to demonstrate to future dipshits that we are serious about protecting our nation from DOMESTIC enemies. If we had done that at the end of the Civil War, we wouldn’t be here right now.
I’ll like it, Nazis dying is always a good time.
Forcing medical procedures on detained hunger strikers is seen as torture by many human rights groups and medical organizations.
So do these human rights groups and medical organizations advocate a policy of letting hunger strikers starve to death? Do they extend this to allowing prisoners to commit suicide by any means, or is it specific to refusing food? I don’t think that would necessarily be unreasonable but the article doesn’t specify.
You should watch this video detailing the SOP (standard process) of force feeding. Then you’ll understand why it’s considered torture, and why letting them do what they want to their own bodies is far far preferable.
Its not just a tube through the mouth to the stomach like you might assume.
Is very difficult to watch, but this guy volunteered for the purpose of this video, and awareness.
I wasn’t asking a rhetorical question. I think letting these people starve, as opposed to force-feeding them, is arguably the right thing to do, but my impression is that that would be a view far out of the mainstream and I would be surprised to hear prominent human rights groups advocating it.
It’s a reasonable question though. Is it wrong to let people die when you’ve beaten out of them every reason to live?
Bodily autonomy is kind of a big deal, yes. Eating disorders are a hallmark of people that have lost control of their lives, and so seek to control the one thing that is entirely up to them, what goes into their body. They are doing this specifically to bring awareness to the crimes against humanity that this administration is infamous for. In denying them their bodily autonomy, they are also seeking to deny them the opportunity to protest their inhumane conditions, which makes the conditions all the worse. This administration doesn’t see them as human beings, and this is just the latest acknowledgement of it.
