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In July 2019, along with three other Indian asylum-seekers, Kumar undertook a hunger strike, demanding release from ICE detention. “I asked them to give me my freedom. If they had granted it at that time, there would have been no need for all of this,” Ajay Kumar said. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 15, 2022

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Ajay Kumar set out from India in June 2018, eventually ending up at the U.S. border in California, where he declared his intention to seek political asylum. He languished in an @ICEgov detention for nearly a year. https://t.co/HkPYaXZmPD — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 15, 2022

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About a week after he started the hunger strike, Kumar was transferred to the El Paso Service Processing Center, a hub of federal government force-feeding. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 15, 2022