KARNES CITY, Texas (AP) - An immigrant woman being held at a Texas family detention facility says she and 25 mothers will complete a hunger strike this weekend.
Federal immigration officials have denied knowledge of a hunger strike at the facility in Karnes City, southeast of San Antonio.
But Honduran Kenia Galeano said in a phone interview from the facility Friday that she and about 40 other Central American mothers stopped eating earlier this week in an effort to be released.
She says 26 of them will have completed the five-day streak when they eat breakfast Saturday. Galeano says the women who dropped out feared reprisals from staff after she was briefly held in isolation in the detention’s clinic Monday.
U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement says the 500-bed facility does not have solitary confinement areas.
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