A little-noticed internal filing from ICE's Health Service Corps has done something no press release ever has: it puts in writing that a detainee who stopped eating was subjected to involuntary medical treatment under the current administration. Elsewhere in the paperwork, ICE reports seven people were still on hunger strike as of mid-February, and the agency earmarks close to $169,000 in outside medical costs tied to strikers for the full fiscal year. Separately, he suggested that conditions inside ICE custody cast doubt on whether the recent run of deaths there was avoidable. Force-Feeding Predates This Administration by Over a DecadeNone of this is entirely new territory for ICE. Medical associations have long held that feeding someone against their will violates basic ethical standards, whatever legal paperwork backs it.