Residents of Karnes City Immigration Detention Facility Sue Over Conditions

*First they led 80 detained women in a hunger strike to protest the conditions inside a Homeland Security immigration detention center, now three women have filed suit alleging retaliation by prison authorities. VL

By WOAI

A federal lawsuit filed by three mothers who entered the U.S. illegally with their children and who are detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ‘residential center’ in Texas claims ICE is retaliating against them for protesting their continued detention, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

The women, two of whom are from Honduras and one is from Brazil, are held in the Karnes County Residential Facility south of San Antonio along with their children pending a court hearing on their asylum claims, say they led eighty of their fellow residents in a hunger strike last month, and in response, officials placed them in isolation cells and threatened to separate them from their children.

They claim in the lawsuit, which is filed in U.S. District Court in San Antonio, that the GEO Group, Inc, the private firm which operates the facility under contract with ICE, fired all of the women who participated in the hunger strike from their jobs in the Center, and ‘falsified charges of insurrection against the hunger strikers.’

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