Hunger strike!
Posted by deleted 9 years, 1 month ago to News
So they won't eat until they're granted asylum, huh? That's a situation that will take care of itself in a couple of weeks. I wish all problems that we face could be solved so easily!
These people are spoiled brats.
3 minutes without air
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
we only have to wait a month! -- j
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Saying this... They're not prisoners, so they have the right to not eat if they don't want to. Look at the money they're going to safe by not feeding them.
Of course, the solution is go back from whence you came. IIRC nothing states that we will automatically grant anyone refugee status - each case is reviewed and determined on a case-by-case basis. If they don't like feeling "detained", then send them back to their point of origin where they can no longer accuse us of "detaining them".
At the state prison where I worked at for 21 years, a hunger striker is placed under medical observation.
He is offered food three times a day.
Each time he refuses the food is dumped.
Oh, one other thing.
I never saw a hunger striker starve to death.
In fact, I never saw a single one really starve himself into a seriously bad way.
I don't recall there being a penalty for causing such a bother either.