Seattle, March 30 (RHC)-- In the U.S., dozens of immigrants at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, have been on hunger strike for several days to protest their continued imprisonment at the for-profit facility, owned by GEO Group. 

One striking immigrant prisoner told reporters: “We’re just asking for deportations to be postponed while the pandemic passes.  We are not asking for anything more.  I think we are human.  We are not animals to be treated as the worst thing in this country.  We are asking for a humanitarian visa.”

In other immigration news, a federal judge in Los Angeles has urged the government to work to release imprisoned immigrant children amid the worsening coronavirus outbreak.