“Two guards would hold my feet; two hold my hands; one hold my head—and they would shove tubes in my nose,” Choli told Olivares. Choli recounted how one nurse working for ICE “shoved the tube so hard” that “he tore my nose from the inside.” He was arrested in February 2025 during a routine ICE check-in following President Donald Trump's return to the White House. “I am using hunger strike as the only available option to protest the abuse and mistreatment.” Around two weeks after beginning his hunger strike, Choli was transferred to Port Isabel, where he was held in solitary confinement—which survivors and experts call a form of psychological torture—as he continued his hunger strike.