Death by Immigration

[Greji]

I'm the pulsing cock of the nation. Not gay.

Well, you got the first part right at least...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Well, you got the first part right at least...

Strictly speaking, he didn't quite do that, either. He should have used an indefinite article instead of the definite and the noun phrase completing the sentence was redundant.

[McTojo]

Strictly speaking, he didn't quite do that, either. He should have used an indefinite article instead of the definite and the noun phrase completing the sentence was redundant.

If I had done that then I would be calling myself a dickhead.

[james]

If I had done that then I would be calling myself a dickhead.

would have at least saved us the trouble of having to do so for you.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

If I had done that then I would be calling myself a dickhead.

Touche! You got me. You're indeed much smarter than I had given you credit for.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Sri Lankan man dies at Japan immigration centre

The body of Nickeles Fernando was found in his cell in Tokyo last month hours after he had complained of chest pains and begged for a doctor to be called, campaigners said.

His death came two days after a government probe into two deaths at another immigration centre found there was inadequate medical care.

A rights group called Provisional Release Association in Japan (PRAJ) said Fernando, 57, was ignored by guards when he asked for medical help.

"He had begun to complain about severe chest pain at about 7am on November 22, but instead of calling a doctor, immigration officials moved him from a shared cell into a single one," PRAJ member Hiromitsu Masuda told AFP.

After checking on Fernando several times during the morning and finding him in the same position, a Sri Lankan translator went into the cell at around 1pm, said fellow PRAJ member Mitsuru Miyasako.

"At that time his body was already cold and had no pulse," he said. "The translator called immigration officials, then for the first time they began to do something."

"If it had been a Japanese person complaining of pain in his chest, this would never have happened."

[...]

Two days before Fernando's death, the justice ministry admitted another immigration centre at Ushiku northeast of Tokyo "did not have enough medical" facilities and failed to provide 24-hour access to in-house doctors.

That came after it investigated the March deaths of an Iranian man in his 30s who choked on food and a Cameroonian man in his 40s who was found unconscious in his cell.

In October last year, a Rohingya asylum-seeker collapsed and died at the Tokyo centre after staff failed to call for a medic, allegedly because the doctor was having lunch.

[matsuki]

Having seen how unprepared they are to handle the elderly in detention (our resident "Yoda" was there for at least 3 weeks before they sent him to the hospital) I don't think it's simply a race thing as much as the usual not prepared for anything out of the ordinary and inability to think on the fly...remember the "out to lunch" and "the ER is closed for the night" excuses seem to be SOP at hospitals here. I guess being a FG holding center, proper medical assistance may be a rung lower off the priority scale than reg. detention..

[Coligny]

wait, you mean death penalty for visa issue is not the de-facto ruling...