Immigration Consultant: Hunger Strike and Day Limit

immigration consultant: If another person has to die because the government doesn't take action -- we've had three deaths this year -- is that what this takes " Mac Donald Scott, an immigration consultant and organizer with No One Is Illegal, told rabble in a telephone interview, according to Rabble. Hunger strike highlights injustice of indefinite detention Kashif Ali is one of the detainees on strike. The hunger strike is the third of its kind this year, and detainees' demands remain unchanged: an end to indefinite detention of migrants with a 90-day limit on detentions as an interim measure. "We want an end to indefinite detention, we don't want to be locked up in maximum security prisons, and we want real access to effective legal remedies to contest our detention," stated one of the strike organizers, according to a No One Is Illegal press release. "Not only are these completely understandable demands, but the 90-day demand falls in with American, European and international law. Ali, a 50-year old Ghanaian asylum seeker, has been in immigration detention for a total of 12 years. "I swear every night I sleep three or four hours, I don't know if I will be released or put on a plane. People like me, I am not fighting them, but we can't be deported, we should be released, given ID and papers and the support to work. They are making me go crazy, I can't sleep, I am depressed, I have stomach problems. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.