‘It’s a concentration camp’: SJ advocates protest conditions at ICE detention centers

TEARS FELL FROM the eyes of a mother of a detained immigrant who has been on a hunger strike for 14 days.

Eighty-four detained immigrants, including four from Santa Clara County, continued their hunger strike Friday in protest of abhorrent treatment at the Mesa Verde Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center in Bakersfield and the Golden State Annex in McFarland. Nearly two dozen advocates in support of the detainees protested outside Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren’s San Jose district office.