An unnamed Cuban man detained at the Montgomery ICE processing center near Houston was declared a hunger striker on July 25, three days after his arrest by ICE on July 22. Court records show federal judge Andrew Hanen approved ICE's request to force-feed him, including via a nasogastric tube and a rare, nonconsensual surgical gastric tube procedure, and the order was extended in early September. He lacks legal representation, and DHS said he entered the U.S. unlawfully in 1980, was ordered deported in 2004, and has prior convictions; advocates including ACLU attorney Savannah Kumar and civil rights attorney Eunice Cho criticized the practice as torturous and noted rising numbers of similar force-feeding cases in ICE detention since January 2025.