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It started with one man at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico; a Cuban immigrant named Rogelio Bolufe, who has been in ICE detention since last August.
Around April 28, he raised concerns about conditions at the facility and has since gone on hunger strike. Bolufe mobilized dozens of fellow detainees to protest about legal library access, water quality, tablets, and what he alleges were constitutional abuses.
Bolufe says that on May 5, he was removed from his cell and transferred to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's field office in Albuquerque, then transferred to Camp East Montana in Fort Bliss, Texas, then to Alabama, then to Mesa, Arizona, and lastly to a detention facility in Washington. All over the course of 48 hours. Bolufe says that throughout the transfer, he was denied medical care and prescription medicine.
In his own words: "I don't have any medical attention. They didn't let me see any doctor. They didn't give me any medication for migraines or pain. This is a reprisal for complaints, a reprisal for the First Amendment."