Jimmy Gomez and Jesse Watters' hunger strike claim draws scrutiny

Jesse Watters said on Thursday that detainees at an ICE detention facility went on a hunger strike because they do not have ethnic food. The source does not identify the facility or include a response from detainees or officials.

Watters' Thursday remark

Watters, a host, tied the hunger strike to food complaints and used the phrase “because they don't have ethnic food.” That is the only reason given in the available account, and it comes from his statement rather than from the detainees themselves.

ICE detention facility claim

The account says only that the detainees were at an ICE detention facility. It does not name the site, and it does not add any details about how long the hunger strike lasted, how many detainees joined it, or what the facility served.

Jimmy Gomez and the record

The lead fact in the available reporting is Watters’ description of the strike, not a facility explanation. For readers trying to track the issue, that means the public record here is limited to one attributed statement and no direct comment from the people involved.

Jimmy Gomez appears in the provided headline list, but the verified facts supplied for this article do not add any action by him in the hunger-strike account. The only confirmed development in the body is Watters' Thursday claim, which leaves the food complaint as the sole stated reason on the record.