A hunger strike by six detained immigrants in a New Jersey jail is entering its second week. The men want to be able to hug their children during visits. If they were transferred to another jail in New Jersey, that could happen--but authorities refuse to transfer them.

"I'm going to keep going until I'm dead or I see my daughter," vowed Saleh Hamza, a Lebanese man whose daughter was born after he was arrested 13 months ago on immigration charges."

These men are not being held for criminal violations. They are in jail for visa and immigration violations in the wake of Sept. 11.

One of the men, a Palestinian, is raising a different issue. He is objecting to his continued detention. He was arrested for not obeying a deportation order. But he is stateless--there is no place for the Government to send him, so they keep him in jail. Despite the fact that in 2001 the U.S. Supreme Court held in Zadvydas v. Davis that the INS cannot indefinitely detain individuals who have been ordered deported, but cannot be removed in the foreseeable future.