Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Of This Hunger Strike at a Tacoma Immigrant Prison Camp


   Don't know if this hunger strike is over, or if it continues, but I wish we could talk to the prisoners. The are asking for better conditions and an end to their deportations.
   Now, off hand, what do you expect? You come into the U.S. illegally, you are going to get sent home. That they would be protesting their deportations indicates they feel they have the right to live in America, even though the don't have the welcome of the people already here nnor the permission of the government here.
   That they are protesting their treatment indicates what? That they are being treated worse than normal prisoners are? Or that normal treatment of prisoners is less than the way they feel they deserve? Are they simply demanding the dignity afforded the average person?
  The issue of these prisoners prompts me to consider what a proper title is for these deportation jails. Immigrant prisons? Immigrant concentatration camps? That might be a little much, as to be a concentration camp, it must have harsh conditions. Political prisoner camps? It probably is a stretch to call them political prisoners. But, I wonder, and will give it more thought.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/immigration-detainees-continue-hunger-strike-22840508

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