Protestors gather outside Baldwin facility as immigrant detainees held by ICE launch hunger strike

By: Erick Díaz Veliz

Outlets: Michigan Advance

Published: April 22, 2026

Words: 729

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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At the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, the biggest in the Midwest with 1,800 beds, several hundred detained immigrants started a hunger strike on Monday, refusing to eat or work, according to immigrant rights advocates and relatives of the detainees in Michigan.

In a press release shared by the activist group No Detention Centers in Michigan, the hunger strike was held by male detainees “citing dangerous conditions, a lack of adequate food and …

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