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Detained immigrants launch hunger strike in Washington state
Reuters ^ | Apr 11, 2017 | Tom James

Posted on 04/11/2017 7:08:14 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: aliens; tacoma
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To: mdittmar

burgler refuses to leave house; goes on hunger strike


21 posted on 04/11/2017 7:33:07 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: mdittmar

If I could, I’d ask them to lose a few pounds for me while they’re at it.


22 posted on 04/11/2017 7:34:19 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: mdittmar

FINE, LET THEM STARVE TO DEATH.


23 posted on 04/11/2017 7:34:38 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Williams

Make ‘em fly united.


24 posted on 04/11/2017 7:36:29 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: mdittmar

If we let em go they’ll just get fat and diabetic.

It’s really sad all these immigrants come here all skinny and disease free, then they find McDonalds and learn 7-11 sells Haagen Daas 24 hours a day....


25 posted on 04/11/2017 7:38:07 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: mdittmar

Use the food money savings to buy one way plane tickets.


26 posted on 04/11/2017 7:45:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: mdittmar

Excellent! Cuts down on costs.

Could we extend that for double the amount of time.

We’ll give you clean sheets and pillowcases once a month.


27 posted on 04/11/2017 7:46:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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Great! save money and maybe a few will cause themselves to expire and we can send them back across the border as cargo instead of taking up seats.

I’m not heartless, I just appreciate people who don’t harm us citizens and who love USofA as it was founded to be.


28 posted on 04/11/2017 7:47:28 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: mdittmar
according to Maru Mora Villalpando, an activist in touch with the detainees

Fake news narrative. We need to strike the word "activist" as a noun.
29 posted on 04/11/2017 7:52:06 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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Send them 100 miles or so north to canada.


30 posted on 04/11/2017 8:19:11 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: mdittmar

At some institution (Arapaio?), when the inmates acred up, they were fed nutritious baby food, since they acted like babies. Love to see that in Washington, but . . .


31 posted on 04/11/2017 8:24:23 PM PDT by Oatka
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The guards ought to stage an Open Buffet a few yards away from the holding cells. The buffet will be open to STAFF ONLY. It will be catered by Panda Express, IHOP and Taco Bell. The aromas will drive the ‘undocumented’ immigrants muy, muy loco.

The ACLU lawyers will somehow find out, and go screaming to the Facility Manager about ‘cruel & inhuman’ punishment. Afterward, the ACLU lawyers will meet at the Open Buffet and discuss strategy over plates of Tomato Beef Chow Mein and Blueberry Pancakes, (with extra syrup).


32 posted on 04/11/2017 8:25:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Migraine

Oh no!! Not United Airlines! I’ll behave!


33 posted on 04/11/2017 8:28:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: mdittmar

“immigration holding center”?

Uh, you mean ILLEGAL immigration holding center?


34 posted on 04/11/2017 8:34:25 PM PDT by Professional
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No such thing as an immigrant holding center. Not a nation on earth “holds” legal immigrants like criminals.

Nice word play Reuters....fake f’n news...


35 posted on 04/11/2017 8:36:01 PM PDT by Professional
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To: mdittmar

So? Give them no publicity and they will give it up.


36 posted on 04/11/2017 8:42:07 PM PDT by madison10
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To: mdittmar

That’ll show them.


37 posted on 04/11/2017 8:48:34 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It’s the same here. They top out about 5’6”, weight about 180 and look like they use bacon grease for to comb their hair straight back.
Yeah, the illegal Halflings can afford to miss a few meals.


38 posted on 04/11/2017 9:34:50 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: tumblindice

at 5’6” I used to ben just ‘medium height’. Now I notice I can see above mostly everyone’s heads... sigh...


39 posted on 04/11/2017 9:43:14 PM PDT by bitt (obamas ghost writer just ripped a whole chapter out of his manuscript.)
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To: bitt

Old ladies ask me to pull stuff off top shelves for them in stores. I’m h-happy to oblige.


40 posted on 04/11/2017 9:48:17 PM PDT by tumblindice
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