More than 80 Bangladesh nationals, detained for illegal crossing of the border to the US, have started a hunger strike unto death in a Texas prison to protest alleged deportation back home, rights activists said.
The border-crossing migrants at El Paso county detention facilities in Texas began the strike on Wednesday, Newsnextbd reported.
The authorities have also dismissed their cases they filed to seek political asylum in the US citing a dangerous situation in Bangladesh.
“We have started these since we have nothing to lose anymore at this point,” Mahbubur Rahman, a detainee and also the leader of the protest in the El Paso prison, was quoted to have said by activist Kazi Fouzia of rights group Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM).
Two Afghan and one Pakistani aliens also joined them to demand that their cases be heard and they must not be deported back home.