What a bunch of spoiled brats. My kids try to pull this about once - usually when they're about two. They end up in their room - hungry - for a while. Their stomachs quickly end their rebellion. I would suggest the same here.

These people are spoiled brats.

let's see ... 3 threes is the old rule from survival school:::

3 minutes without air
3 days without water
3 weeks without food

we only have to wait a month! -- j
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Simple solution. Offer them a one way trip to their country of origin or a small spot to be buried in when they starve themselves.

Right you are! Remember what Margaret Thatcher did during the Irish hunger strike in the early 1980's. She had no sympathy for them and eventually ten of them died. Don't give into these creeps and moochers.

They're not prisoners, so there's nothing you can do to force them to eat. Nor would I - maybe they would then understand that to live here you have to take some self-responsibilty, not expect the nanny state to provide you a dole like some other places might. If you think this sucks, then maybe you shouldn't have left where you came from. Hmmm?

AAAAWWWW. Poor babies! Maybe I should invite them to Thanksgiving dinner -- if they're alive by then. Does water count? If they refuse water, the whole thing could be over next week.

Hmm... I'm not very far from there, I may have to go & "urge" them to fight til their dying breath...

Food will be provided and wasted along with the money that paid for it.
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.

Win win!

Screw them! Don't come into my home and make demands on me. Stay in your own country and fight to fix what you don't like. Ooohhhh yea, let's revisit the hunger strike in ...... say a month. :-)

Hmmm. Interesting. I like this hunger strike instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb45...

Strange, how the prisoners at Gitmo did the same thing.

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".