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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!


Sunday, November 20, 2011

Hypocrisy of DNC Chair!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz's hypocrisy on immigration is stunning.  In this video clip she says the following:
"His position... Democrats position is that we need comprehensive immigration reform, we have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy and that is not only a reality but a necessity. and that it would be harmful if... you know... Republican solutions that I've seen in the last few years are that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries an in fact that it should be a crime and we should arrest them all.  I mean that was in legislation that Jim Sensenbrenner advanced."


Debbie and Senator Bill Nelson cosigned a letter of endorsement for what could be the largest ICE immigrant prison in the country.  The sole purpose of the facility will be to facilitate "pack[ing] them all up and shipping them back to their own countries."

How can she sleep at night knowing she's a major facilitator of shipping them back home and bash her political opponents for the same?  It's totally Alice In Wonderland.  She's breaking up families, exacerbating the whole immigration problem.  But, her political donors are getting theirs, aren't they?  To heck with the massive opposition to this prison by her own constituents.  To heck with the estimated 18,000 school children living within 5 miles of this prison.  To heck with the quality of life for her district.  To heck with her stunning hypocrisy.  To heck with the immigrants. As long as she can scrape up a few more campaign dollars, that's all she apparently cares about.  Pay for Play.  That's all.  And they all are trying to shove this hideous facility down our throats.
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  1. No CCA Immigrant Prison in Southwest RanchesNovember 21, 2011 at 5:01 PM

    A major point is being missed here. She's complaining that Sensenbrenner wanted to round them up and deport them all.

    So, how does Debbie show her opposition? By giving Sensenbrenner the prison to accomplish this. She's worse than ANY Republican she complains about.

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