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Border Czar Threatens Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers; NJ Gov Demands Closure

5/28/2026

Summary

Story summary

Border Czar Tom Homan will seek a court order to force-feed detainees if the hunger strike escalates.
About 300-400 detainees are on a hunger-and-labor strike demanding better food, ventilation, medical care, and faster case processing.
Governor Mikie Sherrill, after being denied entry, called the Geo Group-run facility’s treatment unconstitutional and urged its immediate closure despite New Jersey’s 2021 ban on private immigration detention.

History

Historical Context

Secure Communities launched as a pilot in 2008 and by March 2011 ICE had spread it to over 1,210 jurisdictions, generating 140,396 criminal-alien bookings. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson terminated the program in November 2014, replacing it with the Priority Enforcement Program amid lawsuits such as Jimenez-Moreno v. Napolitano. Now New Jersey Assemblyman Tom Homan faces a GEO-run detention-center strike, reflecting the program’s private-facility legacy.

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Story summary

Border Czar Tom Homan will seek a court order to force-feed detainees if the hunger strike escalates.
About 300-400 detainees are on a hunger-and-labor strike demanding better food, ventilation, medical care, and faster case processing.
Governor Mikie Sherrill, after being denied entry, called the Geo Group-run facility’s treatment unconstitutional and urged its immediate closure despite New Jersey’s 2021 ban on private immigration detention.

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