DHS Secretary Mullin dismisses the detainee hunger strike in an ICE facility: They’re refusing to eat because they want their ethnic food. pic.twitter.com/tdUYMkUy1K — FactPost (@factpostnews) May 27, 2026A judge must authorize the forced feeding of ICE detainees. He was asked if he wanted to end his hunger strike and, when he said no, the second insertion began. Wynia continued:“People who are on hunger strike do not want to die, they are not suicidal. The Guardian series comes amid a broader pattern of abuse and neglect, sometimes deadly, of ICE detainees, many of whom are locked up in facilities run by private prison profiteers.