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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!


Saturday, November 26, 2011

Pay to Play the Human Way

Over the past few months, we've crossed paths with a number of people who have been highly sensitive to certain avenues that have unfolded before us as we've published facts related to this ICE / CCA immigrant prison in Southwest Ranches.



Of the earliest and most visceral responses that we've received are those that believe that Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be given a free pass over her endorsement of this project. The reason that Congresswoman Schultz and DNC chair is not given a free pass is because we believe that her letter of endorsement along with Senator Bill Nelson's letter of endorsement were major factors in ICE's decision to situate the prison in Southwest Ranches.  We also believe that they are so powerful, they could kill the project in SWR in a heartbeat if they wanted to.

Further, if it were some sort of simple mistake based on receiving false information from backwater small town politicians as her staff including Jodi Davidson and Steve Paikowsky seemed to imply early on, then Debbie would have removed her endorsement. She hasn't. In fact, she's gotten more devious in how she is using the guise of "open" meetings with HOA presidents to try and deflate the opposition to this prison. She and her staff have been relentless in protecting the position that she took endorsing the prison.

Therefore, providing an understanding of why that is and also trying to wake up her constituencies that she's extremely hypocritical when she bashes republicans for wanting to "round them up and deport them all" when SHE is endorsing the VERY MEANS to do that with her immigrant prison in Southwest Ranches.

We have demonstrated that merely a few weeks after giving CCA her endorsement, she accepted money from CCA in such closely timed proximity that it had to be for providing her endorsement of the project in SWR.

As this unfolds, we find a set of industries which profit off our massive immigration problem and dysfunctional immigration system. The top line of it is the private corporations who are making billions of dollars incarcerating illegal aliens awaiting decisions on deportation or making a fortune using migrant labor that can be crushed and discarded like a used Styrofoam coffee cup when no longer needed. We find that one of South Florida's elite, Sam Poole III who was formerly a Broward County official has been one of the continuous threads of this story.

The other day, our investigations uncovered a link between the sugar barons who own Florida Crystals up near South Bay, abuse of immigrant labor AND Sam Poole III. Bitter Sugar and Immigrant Abuse Pointing this out caused outrage. However, those people who support DWS with their contributions must be understood because they are buying access which is being used against us.  We are getting a prison in our back yards because of this corruption and the duplicity of the Congresswoman.

Reviewing the FEC campaign contribution database, we find these interesting donations made to Debbie Wasserman Schultz:


FANJUL, ALFONSO WEST PALM BEACH FL 33401 06/13/11 $2500 FLORIDA CRYSTAL/CEO
FANJUL, ANDRES PALM BEACH FL 33480 06/13/11 $2500 FLORIDA CRYSTALS/EXECUTIVE
FANJUL, CATHERINE PALM BEACH FL 33480 06/13/11 $2500 NOT EMPLOYED/HOMEMAKER
FANJUL, RAYSA WEST PALM BEACH FL 33401 06/12/11 $2500

The Fanjul's (owners of Florida Crystals) donated a MINIMUM of $10,000 to DWS this cycle.  It could be more because more donations could come in through other family names that we don't know, yet are still part of the Fanjul clan.

This is highly disturbing.  We urge you to look at the link to the Broward New Times article on the Fanjul's to see just what type of people Debbie Wasserman Schultz is accepting donations from AND who have a relationship to Sam Poole III.     New Times' Bitter Sugar Article

While we're at it, let's take a look at donations from Sam Poole III's employer, Berger Singerman, to Debbie Wasserman Schultz's campaign:


BERGER, JAMES L. FORT LAUDERDALE FL 33316 08/29/11 $500 BERGER SINGERMAN/ATTORNEY
BERGER, JAMES L. FORT LAUDERDALE FL 33316 05/02/11 $250 BERGER SINGERMAN/ATTORNEY
BERGER, MITCHELL PARKLAND FL 33067 05/02/11 $250 BERGER SINGERMAN/ATTORNEY
BERGER, MITCHELL FORT LAUDERDALE FL 33301 08/29/11 $500 BERGER SINGERMAN/ATTORNEY
LICHTMAN, CHARLES COOPER CITY FL 33026 08/29/11 $500 BERGER SINGERMAN/ATTORNEY
SAMUELS, LEONARD K. DAVIE FL 33328 08/23/11 $250 BERGER SINGERMAN/ATTORNEY
SAMUELS, LEONARD K. DAVIE FL 33328 05/02/11 $250 BERGER SINGERMAN/ATTORNEY
SINGERMAN, PAUL STEVEN MIAMI BEACH FL 33140 08/29/11 $750 BERGER SINGERMAN/PARTNER/ATTORNEY

That's another $3250 from Berger Singerman.

While we're at it, let's put up donations from favorite law firm, Becker Poliakoff.  Are they funding Debbie's campaign?  You bet:


LEVY, ALAN J. FT LAUDERDALE FL 33301 08/29/11 250 BECKER & POLIAKOFF/ATTORNEY
FRIEDMAN, BERNARD HOLLYWOOD FL 33021 08/29/11 500 BECKER POLIAKOFF/ATTORNEY
FRIEDMAN, BERNARD HOLLYWOOD FL 33021 08/29/11 500 BECKER POLIAKOFF/ATTORNEY
FRIEDMAN, BERNIE HOLLYWOOD FL 33021 06/12/11 2000 BECKER POLIAKOFF/ATTORNEY

She's taking money from two of Sam Poole III's clients, Big Sugar and Prison, Inc., both of which profit off illegal immigration and have a history of abusing immigrants under their care.  She's taking money from the law firm who's employee has represented both Florida Crystals AND CCA.   Of course, she's taking money from the internal SWR Lobbyist, Keith Poliakoff's firm.  All these threads are woven into a tapestry of big corporations buying access to politicians.  These politicians benefit from the exploitation of immigrants yet hypocritically bash their opponents for "wanting to lock them up and deport them."  The residents of west Broward are getting an unwanted immigrant prison in the deal.

The pursuit of truth is virtuous, so the investigation continues. We will continue to bring more clarity to the issue.
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