Court orders immigrant on hunger strike to be forcibly hydrated
A man who has been on a hunger strike since mid-October will be forcibly hydrated after a federal court in Brownsville issued a temporary restraining order to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Port Isabel.
According to the document, Mohit Rana is a native and citizen of India. He entered the United States near Calexico, California, and is currently in custody at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos.
U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. issued the order in response to a petition filed by DHS and ICE detailing concerns that the man’s minimal intake of liquid could result in his death “in the very near future.”
Officials wrote that Rana has been on a hunger strike and that he has consumed minimal amounts of liquid since Oct. 18. In the four days leading up to the request for a restraining order, his water intake was only a fraction of the 8 cups recommended daily.
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