Scrutiny of ICE's use of force keeps widening: after Gabar Choli's force-feeding account and two deaths in street operations, Homeland Security is now set to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver an electric jolt to people who resist.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds people facing deportation in detention centres across the country, including in Texas. Some detainees refuse food to protest their confinement, and detention staff have responded by force-feeding them. Accounts from released detainees, such as the film-maker Gabar Choli, are the main window into how that is done.
The US Department of Homeland Security is expected to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver a painful electric jolt to people who resist immigration officers. The planned purchase comes amid criticism of ICE's use of force during street operations.
US authorities are considering gloves that deliver painful electric shocks to people who resist immigration officers, Daily Sabah reported on Tuesday. El País writes that ICE disregarded its own de-escalation guidelines in the street operations in which Lorenzo Salgado and Johan Durán died.
Gabar Choli told the Guardian he was shackled, pinned and force-fed over eight months while on hunger strike at a detention centre in Texas. He said the treatment mentally broke him and left lasting physical and emotional scars.