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Hundreds of people detained at Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia are on a hunger strike, protesting unsafe drinking water, spoiled food, and denied medical care. We stand in solidarity with them & demand humane conditions & accountability🧵⤵️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

With no other place to turn, immigrants in GA — and in other facilities across the country — are using this extreme form of protest to demand that someone listen. Among the hunger strikers is a Yemeni asylum seeker with lung cancer who is separated from his U.S. citizen child.

What’s happening in Folkston is a part of a broader pattern of abuse & neglect in detention facilities nationwide. Immigration detention is a for-profit industry built on caging as many human beings as possible & turning detention into revenue—with little regard for the safety of the people inside.

It’s no secret that private prison groups, like GEO Group, which runs Folkston, have hit a gold rush with Trump’s mass deportation machine. Earlier this year, GEO Group reported over $732 million in quarterly revenue. www.npr.org/2026/08/08/n...