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Lawmakers who visited the Adelanto Ice Detention Center on Monday received a petition with 150 signatures in support of the strike.
Detainees say they get poor medical treatment, dirty drinking water, and food that isn't fit to eat.
Immigration advocates say the strikers are now being retaliated against for speaking up.
Alvaro Huerta is with Immigrant Defenders Law Center.
The group represents one of the detainees.
DHS denies a hunger strike is taking place.
And GEO Group, which runs Adelanto, calls the allegations of retaliation baseless.
For NPR News, I'm Anthony Victoria in San Bernardino.
Lawmakers who visited the Adelanto Ice Detention Center on Monday received a petition with 150 signatures in support of the strike.
Detainees say they get poor medical treatment, dirty drinking water, and food that isn't fit to eat.
Immigration advocates say the strikers are now being retaliated against for speaking up.
Alvaro Huerta is with Immigrant Defenders Law Center.
The group represents one of the detainees.
DHS denies a hunger strike is taking place.
And GEO Group, which runs Adelanto, calls the allegations of retaliation baseless.
For NPR News, I'm Anthony Victoria in San Bernardino.