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A Guardian Investigation Found ICE Force-Fed Hunger-Striking Detainees — Restraining Them and Pushing a Tube Through the Nose Into the Stomach, One Kurdish Asylum Seeker for Eight Months, an Afghan Man Daily for Nearly Six — Using Court Orders, on People With No Lawyers, to Break Strikes Protesting Worm-Infested Food and Medical Neglect. Doctors and the UN Call It Torture
A Guardian investigation built on court records found that the Trump administration tried to subject at least 10 hunger-striking immigrants in ICE detention to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding — the practice of restraining a person and forcing a tube through the nose, down the esophagus, and into the stomach to deliver liquid nutrition against their will. At least three, and possibly five, were actually force-fed; five others abandoned their hunger strikes at the last moment rather than endure it. The durations are staggering: a Kurdish asylum seeker at ICE's Port Isabel Service Processing Center in Los Fresnos, Texas was force-fed for eight months; another striker at the same facility for six; an Afghan man was force-fed daily for nearly six months, from September 2025 through March 2026. ICE obtained court orders to authorize the procedures, and in six cases reviewed the detainees had no legal representation. Some were also placed in solitary confinement. The hunger strikes they were being punished for breaking were protests against the detention conditions themselves — overcrowding, spoiled and worm-infested food and water, inadequate medical care, and alleged physical and psychological abuse. Force-feeding a competent hunger striker is recognized by the World Medical Association as a violation of medical ethics and by United Nations experts as cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment that can amount to torture. Nearly 50 Democratic lawmakers have demanded a watchdog investigation. DHS disputes the abuse reports and says detainees receive adequate care.
ICE Agents Shot and Killed Two Men Six Days Apart — a Houston Man on His Way to Work and a Colombian Food-Delivery Driver in Maine — Neither Was the Person They Were Looking For, Neither Agent Wore a Body Camera, and When ICE Paused Traffic Stops, Trump Ordered Them Resumed the Same Day
In the span of six days in July 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fatally shot two men — and in both cases, the man they killed was not the person they had come to arrest. On July 7, an ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant, in Houston as he headed to work. On July 13, ICE officer David Brouillette shot and killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian food-delivery driver, during a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine. Neither man was the target of the operation. In both shootings, the agents were not wearing body cameras. Witnesses in the Maine case gave accounts "extremely different" from ICE's — saying no agent was ever in front of the vehicle and that shots came from the side of the van, contradicting the agency's report. Federal immigration agents have now killed at least four people this year, part of a documented pattern of escalating deadly force as arrests went quieter and more violent. Nationwide "ICE Out" protests erupted in Houston, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Columbia, and beyond. ICE announced it was pausing most traffic stops and expanding body-camera use — and then, on July 15, Trump issued a statement saying ICE "cannot give up" traffic stops, and vehicle stops were permitted to resume the same day. Separately, a New York Times review found that 213 of more than 400 resolved federal cases accusing people of assaulting or impeding ICE and Border Patrol agents had been dismissed, withdrawn, or ended in acquittals — collapsing the "agents under assault" narrative used to justify the aggression.
Trump's Financial Disclosure: $1.4 Billion in Crypto Income in 2025 — His Meme Coin Made Him $635 Million While Retail Investors Lost $2.3 Billion — He Also Bought Private Prison Stock as ICE Detainees Doubled
Trump's 2025 financial disclosure — 927 pages, compared to Obama's 8 and Biden's 11 — reveals at least $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency income and $2.24 billion in total revenue. The breakdown: $635 million from licensing his $TRUMP meme coin, which he launched three days before inauguration and which has since crashed 97.7% (from $74.27 to $1.68), leaving over one million retail investors with $2.3 billion in combined losses. Another $526 million from World Liberty Financial token sales — the company where an Abu Dhabi royal family member secretly purchased a 49% stake for $187 million to Trump entities, then received approval for hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips despite national security concerns. And $100+ million in bitcoin held in cold wallets — the first time a sitting president has disclosed direct crypto ownership. Forbes estimates Trump's net worth nearly tripled from $2.3 billion to $6.5 billion, driven by crypto. The same disclosure reveals Trump's investment accounts bought stock in GEO Group, the private prison company, starting 10 days after inauguration — as ICE detainees swelled from 35,000 to 70,000 and GEO reported record $254 million profits (a 700% increase). In 2021, Trump called Bitcoin "a scam." The crypto industry then became the largest corporate donor of the 2024 election at $238 million. He now calls himself the "crypto president." His SEC dropped enforcement actions against Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, and others. He disbanded the DOJ unit that investigated crypto crime. He signed crypto-friendly legislation. And he made $1.4 billion. A May 2026 poll found 62% of voters don't trust Trump to regulate crypto; even 59% of Republicans oppose officials maintaining crypto business interests while in office.
ICE Agent Arrested for Shooting Venezuelan Man Through a Front Door — Then Lying About It
ICE agent Christian Castro, 52, was arrested in Texas for shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis through the front door of a Minneapolis home on January 14 during Operation Metro Surge. The bullet traveled through the door, hit Sosa-Celis in the leg, and lodged in a child's bedroom wall. Four adults and two children were inside. Castro and other agents then lied — claiming Sosa-Celis attacked them with a broom and shovel. Video proved that was false. DHS acknowledged agents "provided false information." The DOJ initially charged the victim, then dropped the charges. Castro faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime. ICE called the arrest "a political stunt."
"No Kings" III: Largest Single-Day Protest in U.S. History — 8-9 Million Across 3,300+ Cities
The third "No Kings" protest is believed to be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history: 8-9 million people across 3,300+ events in all 50 states. Springsteen headlined. Nearly half the events were in GOP strongholds. The White House dismissed it as "leftist funding."
DOJ Admits ICE Courthouse Arrests Based on "Erroneous" Legal Authority
The DOJ admitted it wrongly used an ICE memo to justify arresting hundreds of immigrants at immigration courthouses. The memo only applied to criminal courts, not immigration courts. The DOJ blamed ICE. DHS said arrests would continue anyway.
ICE Deported 363 Pregnant and Postpartum Women — 16 Miscarriages in Detention
DHS data revealed ICE deported 363 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing women in 13 months. 16 miscarriages in detention. 9 women in their third trimester detained. Previous administrations mostly released pregnant detainees — this one deports them.
Nashville Journalist Detained 16 Days by ICE for Covering Immigration — Stripped, Doused in Chemicals, Isolated
Estefany Rodríguez, a Spanish-language reporter who covers ICE for Nashville Noticias, was arrested without a warrant while her husband parked at a gym. She spent 16 days detained: 5 in isolation after guards falsely claimed lice, stripped naked and doused in chemicals.
ICE Violated 96+ Court Orders in One Month in Minnesota
A federal judge found ICE violated at least 96 court orders in 74 cases in a single month — "more court orders this month than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence." A Trump attorney was held in civil contempt.
Immigration Detention Deaths Hit 20-Year High
32 people died in ICE detention in 2025 — matching the 20-year record and exceeding the entire Biden term (26 deaths in 4 years). ICE now holds 65,000 people. Oversight staff was gutted by 80-96%.
Mass Student Visa Revocations: 8,000+ Visas Pulled
The State Department revoked 8,000+ student visas and 100,000 total nonimmigrant visas — double the Biden rate. ICE ran criminal checks on all 1.3 million international students. Some were detained for campus advocacy.
ICE Agents Killed Two U.S. Citizens in Minneapolis
During immigration raids in Minneapolis, federal agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in separate incidents. Video evidence contradicted official accounts. 2025 was the deadliest year for ICE detention on record.