Detained immigrants launch hunger strike in Washington state

Reuters ^ | Apr 11, 2017 | Tom James

[mdittmar]

Hundreds of detainees at an immigration holding center in Washington state began refusing meals in a hunger strike to protest conditions at the facility and delayed immigration hearings, activists said on Tuesday.

A group of about 100 detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, refused their lunches on Monday, with 300 others joining the protest that night and the following morning, according to Maru Mora Villalpando, an activist in touch with the detainees.

[Fungi]

Guests invaders in your own home refuse to eat? Pardon me, what is wrong with that?

[cableguymn]

saving us the expense of feeding them.. and if they keep it going long enough. we can just cremate them and send um home in a flat rate box.

win win in my book.

[cableguymn]

NO!

we don’t want even one coming back off the plane in US soil.

however, they can beat um up on the plane. thats fine.

[Cowboy Bob]

Winning!

Less taxpayer money spent on feeding him.

[taxesareforever]

Just means more food for the homeless.

[jonrick46]

Good! It will be less money to feed them.

[Mr Radical]

( 100 + 300 ) x $5 = $400 per day saved.
More winning!

[Mr Radical]

OOOPS I meant $2000 per day of course!

[Migraine]

we don’t want even one coming back off the plane in US soil.

I have long felt that parachutes were the answer, down near Guadalajara. Facial ID them so they can't come back.

Do that a few times and the others who are still here should be looking for the exits.

[Moltke]

I wouldn’t call a skipped lunch a hunger strike, but perhaps that’s just me.

[Tudorfly]

Sounds to me like the Immigration budget is going to be saving some food money for the next few days. Lower those expenses!

[JimRed]

Starvation is painless and euphoric, right?

[cableguymn]

Do we really need the parachute?

[Migraine]

Yes, of course we need parachutes. It’s the humane way. A fairly substantial industry would arise, of course, where the paratrooperos would find a collecting station, receive a reward for their ‘chute, and the greedy caciques would then sell them back to Uncle Sugar (for a small fee, of course).

You and I can pack their ‘chutes (for a small fee, of course, or a tax deduction). See how this would result in industry on both sides of the frontera?

[NorthMountain]

Fine. If they don't want to eat, don't feed them. If they don't want to drink, don't water them.

I hear tell death by dehydration is "euphoric" ...

Yeah, I know ... BS

[NorthMountain]

Pack ‘em in cages on C-17s, and drop ‘em on the ramp in Mexico City.