More than 50 religious activists showed up at the doors of the Adelanto Detention Facility in California in an to attempt to console a group of refugees that has declared a hunger strike. The detainees are fasting to protest high bail bonds and mistreatment, as well as to demand asylum, an action that coincides with another hunger strike by dozens of detainees in a detention center in Tacoma, Washington. Authorities at the facility denied entry to the religious activists. Our correspondent in Los Angeles, Ruben Tapia, was present at the event.
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