Wow, these illegals are crazy serious about their American rights! They have even formed a cute little club they call the NWDC Resistance.

More than 100 immigrants detained at the Northwest Detention Center on Tacoma’s Tideflats started a hunger strike Monday to protest conditions at the facility, according to an immigrant rights group, reports The News Tribune.

The three-day strike, which started at noon, is intended to get concessions in terms of food, care and legal access, according to a letter from detainees released by the NWDC Resistance,

The immigrant rights group held a protest outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement site, during which the letter was read aloud. About 30 people attended.

The detention center holds more than 1,500 immigrants whose deportation proceedings are ongoing. Geo Group, a private for-profit prison corporation, runs the facility.

“It is very likely that ICE and Geo will try to retaliate by switching them (the striking detainees) to other pods or sending them to solitary,” NWDC Resistance leader Maru Mora Villalpando told the crowd.

ICE regional spokeswoman Rose Richeson said the office will not retaliate against participants in the “purported ‘hunger strike.’”

“ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference and does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers,” Richeson said.

The protest will not be considered a hunger strike until 72 hours have passed, she said; until then, all meals will be offered to everyone at the detention center.

After 72 hours, all detainees continuing a hunger strike could be taken into isolation in the medical department and offered medical treatment. ICE can petition the courts to begin involuntary treatment if detainees decline it.

She said the agency would send out a statement later Monday about the events.

The list of demands in the letter were:

▪ Change the food menu.

▪ Lower commissary prices.

▪ Improve hygiene.

▪ Increase recreation time.

▪ Have schoolwork and other programs available to keep detainees occupied.

▪ Improve medical attention.

▪ Increase wages for working detainees.

▪ Help speed up the legal process for detainees.

Detainees held a similar strike in 2014 and got some changes they wanted, Mora said.

“They’re the experts — they know what they’re dealing with,” Mora said of the detainees. “We’re on the outside. We don’t have the same experience.”

The NWDC Resistance will send in lawyers to check on the health of the detainees during the strike, she said. Read more….

Where is Joe Arpaio when you need him? I don’t know what sort of chow these folks are being offered, but I bet it is more than the perpetual menu at Joe’s Tent City, one slice of bologna on two pieces of bread, no mayo, no mustard, no nothing, and a paper cup filled with room-temperature water – THREE TIMES A DAY!

These people appear to be outfitted pretty well with a bullhorn and banner, things you just don’t get in prison. Thus, I have a feeling they are being prodded and backed by a group of bleeding heart liberal weenies on the outside.