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The Town of Southwest Ranches, Corrections Corporation of American (CCA), and DHS / ICE want to build one of the largest immigration detention centers in the nation within walking distance of thousands of homes; thus, reducing the quality of our life and our community. We do not agree with the federal government privatizing our immigration detention centers throughout the nation when there is clear evidence that privatizing our prisons creates a clear public safety threat. For ICE to continue to privatize these institutions and bring this safety threat through their "secure communities Initiative" to our community is unacceptable. Depriving someone of their liberty is a non-delegable governmental function and privatizing of such a function is infecting our nation like a virus.

The Town of Southwest Ranches has now entered into it's THIRD Fire Contract within the last year now with the Town of Davie, costing taxpayers $120,000 in ramp up fees. They are now closing several roads in western Southwest Ranches charging the tax payers $80,000 for the gates. They have paid an unknown amount of money for lobbying with ICE regarding this prison. They have several lawsuits against the Town, 1- Involving Open Meeting Violations on a November 5th meeting concerning the ICE Detention Center, 2- Open Records Violations, and 3- The Town is putting together a lawsuit to sue Pembroke Pines for breach of contract because the City utilized their exit clause and cancelled for convenience their Fire/EMS contract which included water and sewer at the last minute for the CCA prison. In the contract it states that there should be no third party beneficiaries. CCA would be a third party in this instance.

CCA has also filed suit in Federal court against the City of Pembroke Pines saying they are denying them water however the City had never seen a water application. The City did file for a Declaratory Judgement in State Court but that has been put on hold until the Federal Court hears the suit from CCA.

Is ANYONE CONFUSED as to why the Pembroke Pines/Southwest Ranches Fire Agreement was cancelled? The Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff attempted to "slip" into the agreement a portion that guaranteed water for the prison at CCA's request. This is something that should have been brought up separately. CCA should have brought it forward on their own in a water application. This is sleight of hand that CCA and the Town attempted to do because they were so afraid of CCA being on the Pembroke Pines agenda.

As of June 2012, ICE put out a statement that the site selection was no longer needed due to the fact that the extra bedspace was no longer needed.
READ UPDATE HERE!


Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Joyce Kaufman WFTL 850 AM Radio Interview!!!

Ryann Greenberg from our Residents Group just did a LIVE radio interview with the Joyce Kaufman Radio Show!  Joyce, thank you for your interest in our story!  The Residents and people throughout Florida need to know how this was pushed through without the PEOPLES' VOICES being heard!


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9 comments:

  1. It's just a detention center for immigrants, not a prison for robbers, rapists and murders......

    Perhaps a prison for white collar criminals in your high income neighborhood would be more suitable?

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  2. It's a prison. Most of the internal SWR, Pines and Weston documents refer to it as such.

    It will hold people with criminal records including, robbery, rape and murder who may resist leaving and awaiting deportation which is why it has a high security lock down.

    Do your homework.

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  3. So where do you propose it should be built then? In a poorer neighborhood?

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  4. I was thinking somewhere in England. Near Bath perhaps. Right next to the old Roman bath. Will that work for you?

    Now, don't you have any sisters stateside you want to harass?

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  5. Lol. I don't live near Bath. But I wouldn't have a problem if it were built near me.

    If you're going to argue that the government should do something about immigration, but then say you don't want the detention center in your neighborhood, then where do you propose it should be built?

    You state that your neighborhood are half million dollar homes and people earn $100,000 plus. So are you saying that the center should be built only in lower or middle class neighborhoods?

    I'm just trying to understand your viewpoint on society and how you determine issues such as this.

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  6. I did take your response to hand and did check on the Homeland Security website to further educate myself. What you said appears to correct, there may be (and probably will be) persons there who have committed crimes. But there will also be persons there who are simply in the USA as undocumented aliens who are not criminals. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything on their website to give statistics as to the numbers/percentages of each category.

    But you still haven't responded to the question of 'if not in your neighborhood, then whose?'

    Again, I'm not 'trolling', simply asking a valid question. Across the USA many people say they want more criminals locked up for longer, and they want to see something done about immigration, but when it comes to putting prisons or detention centers in their area, they say no. But if not in your area, then where?

    Is it because the average income and cost of homes in your area is higher than most? Is it because people and businesses in your area can contribute more to politicians? Is it because you don't deserve it in your neighborhood but others do?

    To be truly human and part of a great society means not just saying 'not here' but taking the next step and saying where.

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  7. PS: I'm not a 'blood' relative to any of your siblings, step or otherwise, but I love and care about you all just the same, even though we may disagree on many things. I would hope that we can disagree, agreeably. And still love and respect each other.

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  8. Good interview explaining our plight, but more needs to be told. Additional critical items that must be told are the secret meetings that took place between the Ranches city leaders and Corrections Corporation of America, the tax avoidance scheme CCA was offered that denies Broward millions of dollars of needed revenue, the financial connections between the players contributions to Wassermann’s slush fund, the prison is a maximum security facility but the land use does not permit a maximum security facility, that Wassermann’s husband does work for SW Ranches, about the letter that demands secrecy by ICE written by SW Ranches Atty. and on and on.

    The history of negatives to the community wherever a facility likes this is placed near residences and schools needs to be told. The killings of Police and innocent civilians by illegal’s using stolen guns, drunken driving, and robbery are not uncommon, and have been white washed by liberal media, the Obama administration and advocates for illegal’s. The increased traffic created and the incoming masses of less than desirable (I am honest) people into our neighborhoods on their way to visit the prisoners will destroy our quiet and peaceful rural homesteads. We moved out here, to leave the urban blight and crime of the big city, where our kids were safe from drive by criminals, vagrants, and to enjoy what remains of the last open spaces in Broward County.

    The placement of this unwanted prison is a political act by a President and Atty. General that have indicated they want open borders and amnesty, and the hell with what the people want or the laws say. Wasserman Shultz clearly has a dog in this fight as she has taken money from CCA and her Hubby currently does work for SW Ranches. Crony Capitalism some would say. What about States’ rights? Look to Arizona and Georgia-two states that tried to enforce the immigration law that Obama has ignored. It’s beyond belief the US Atty. General Eric Holder has refused to enforce federal immigration law, and has taken those states to court to stop them from trying to protect the citizens. Is this the USA, or has our government been hi-jacked? Obama had relatives living illegally in the US that you and I and the rest of America pay for. ICE knew where they were, and after they were exposed by the "good media” they were suddenly given pass’s to remain, and were not deported......That smells like a Kenyan BBQ stand--------It stinks!

    There is a great deal more why this prison is being forced on us that we must uncover. When other communities have begged for this prison, ICE has refused the offer. Wasserman is supposed to be our representative, but she has ignored the people that elected her, instead accepting money from CCA and others involved in this deal. This whole thing stinks for many reasons, and does not pass the "smell test" for good governance and what our founding fathers had envisioned for this great nation. Why has Marko Rubio been silent? Has CCA paid for his support too?
    I suggest the Florida State Atty. be contacted by leaders of our fight to demand an investigation. The state has the rights to deny this prison being built, or at least delay it until we can throw Wasserman, Obama, Holder, Nelson, and Big Sis Napolitano out in 2012. If we can throw the bums out, I think we have a good chance of shutting the prison project down. But if laws were violated in the way this deal came together, then we may kill it dead!

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  9. We need to be shaking the trees and calling every media outlet requesting an interview. Although the AP wrote a story that was printed in newspapers around the world, unless they hear our words and see our faces of disgust, most see this as a bunch of wealthy stuck up people in Florida, worried about losing their home values. It’s a hard sell to people when they are living on $5 a day and will never own a home. We are truly blessed, but that is not the issue. In fact, I bet Obama and Biden see this the same way as the $5 a day person does. This is how ACORN and Obama have worked-by spreading the message to the less fortunate that it’s the folks in the big homes with the big paychecks that are not sharing their wealth with the others--the same horse crap he is using today to transfer the wealth from the hard working people and handing it to the lazy and the welfare junkies. That’s the community socialist organizer way. Watch the way Wasserman nods her head when Obama preaches his tax the wealthy, and tax them some more sermons. Wasserman is like Obama's lap doggie....watch her responses when asked about the current gridlock in Washington and Obama’s plans for the debt committee’s failure.

    WHY THIS PRISON SHOULD NOT BE BUILT HERE Prisons like this need to be the style built by Sherriff Joe Arpaio, of Arizona, They should be built in the desert near the border with Mexico. The facility must use tents and cots, Pit Toilets GI style. No Air-conditioning, TV or pinball machines. It’s the basics only. The inmates must cook, clean, and exercise. Why should detainees live better than many Americans, where the doctor visits them, and they get 3 meals a day, a bed and air-conditioned comfort. We are paying for that if our soldiers can live in tents, the ICE guests can too!
    But why would this prison be needed if the southern border is protected and the Illegal’s are rounded up and deported? It is a big waste of federal dollars to house and feed them, when we are in debt to the Communist Chinese. As of December 2010, the United States owed China $1.164 trillion, and the total public debt is over $14.1 trillion, and growing.
    Read this statistic; A new study by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.
    Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million. They get 1.1 million in freebies that you are paying for. Obama's friends don’t pay taxes, so we pay for them too!


    Read more: $2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=41045#ixzz1fki4l3gz

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