A Venezuelan man from The Bronx told THE CITY that he has begun a hunger strike to protest that immigration authorities have jailed him for more than seven months, despite multiple court rulings ordering his release.

Several judges have pointedly rejected government claims that the man, whom THE CITY will identify as Jose H., due to concerns about retaliation, was a member of the Tren de Aragua gang — the basis for the Trump administration’s claim that he would pose a danger to the community.

“They are denying me my rights. I already posted two bails,” he said Wednesday in a telephone interview from the Orange County Jail in Goshen, N.Y. “They are treating me like the worst criminal in the United States, and I have never committed a crime.”

Immigration, Customs and Border Patrol were ho

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