From Shaun King
This is what it’s like for mothers in an immigrant detention center.
Some have abandoned the food because they are staging hunger strikes, demanding phone calls with their children. One mother told The Intercept reporter that she had been allowed to call her child only once in several weeks of detention. She went on a hunger strike for two days.
As a result, she had gotten one call each day for the previous three days. She said that a rolling hunger strike has been occurring at the center for the past two weeks, with some 15 women fasting for a couple of days, then eating while another impromptu group fasts.
One mother said she has been separated from her 12-year-old since early June and has not talked to him even once — nor does she know where he is, except that he is in New York state.
Mothers in Port Isabel walk around in a constant state of grief and anxiety, some displaying symptoms of post-traumatic-stress disorder. Several told an Intercept reporter that they have a hard time remembering what day or date it is.
Another women said that a mother “went crazy” last week, “probably because she couldn’t take the separation from her child anymore.” She became so aggressive in a common room, and so frightening to the other detainees, that she was taken away, possibly to solitary confinement — a place that the hunger-striking women have been threatened with if they continue fasting.
Source: https://theintercept.com/2018/07/13/separated-children-hunger-strike-immigrant-detention/
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