In Texas, immigrant rights groups say that immigrant fathers and some of their children have ended their hunger strike at the Karnes County detention center, a for-profit immigration jail under contract with ICE. The fathers had been previously separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” crackdown. Advocates say the fathers were threatened with once again being separated from their children for striking. Demonstrators rallied over the weekend to show support for the families inside Karnes. This is one of the hunger strikers, speaking by phone with the Texas Refugee and Immigrant Network during the strike.

Unnamed father: “I have been jailed for six months. I can’t handle it anymore. The children can’t, either. We thank you so much, because we feel demoralized. We have been punished for too long. We heard rumors of the rally. GEO [Group] raised the volume of the music so that we could not hear you chanting.”

Meanwhile, in Washington state, one immigrant detainee at the Northwest Detention Center had been on hunger strike for 43 days as of Wednesday.