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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.
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Don't forget all of Debbie's Lie's On Election Day!

 
Much to all of our shock and dismay, our Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz supported the Detention Center in our Town, near our homes, schools and our children.  She even put in a "cursory letter of support" for it.  However, this would seem to not be the case since there is a clear history of her supporting this detention center and the private prison system in general.  Let us describe her history with the prison in our Town.
  1. She was in the State Legislature at the time of the Town's incorporation in which the non-contiguous prison parcel was pulled into the incorporation of our town.  
  2. She submitted a letter of support for the facility favoring the Southwest Ranches/CCA proposal.
  3. She had accepted money from CCA right after her letter of support was issued.  We all know that money is often hidden in other PACs earmarked for certain candidates.
  4. We even have an email stating they "thanked her for her efforts" that enabled our Town to get this contract with ICE.  What other efforts could they be referring to?
How many more lies must we take from our Representative?  In addition to this, she has been caught lying about what Israel's ambassador said and turned it into a partisan statement that Republicans were dangerous for Israel.


Yet the audio of her actual words clearly states that she said what the reporter said.


She lies about the changes that Paul Ryan wants to do to FIX Medicare which is crumbling from all the borrowing from our Representatives and Senators have approved over the years including the borrowing that happened with the Health Care Reform Act that the Obama administration pushed.    Paul Ryan has clearly stated numerous times that for seniors who currently receive Medicare that their plan wouldn't change and that the changes would be for those 55 and younger.  Let us be clear that no matter how you feel about what was good or bad about the Healthcare Reform Act/Obamacare, our Representatives shouldn't be lying about proposals to fix the ailing Medicare system brought forward by another Representative.  We shouldn't be scaring senior voters into voting for any party because they are being told the wrong information.  This is not giving voters the facts.






She lies about Romney's stance on Abortion.


We want to be clear that this is a non-partisan group, not connected to any candidate and we are simply trying to let the people in our district (the newly created District 23) know about all these lies our Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells furthering her and the DNC's agenda.  She supported and advanced this detention center and pushed for the private prison industry when the democratic party is supposed to be for unionized labor and immigration reform.  Why would she push for a new prison to lock immigrants and their families up in?  Why would she want to waste more tax dollars on a company with such a horrible human rights record and history of riots to be placed near our schools that could end up in lock down.  Don't forget the widely publicized riot in the CCA prison that happened in May of this year.

No matter which side of the aisle you are on, how can we get actual immigration reform if we are just building more and more prisons?  How is the Federal Government spending MORE money to keep this facility at 90% capacity helping our economy when the other two facilities are underused?  How many more lies are there going to be if she is reelected? Shouldn't we be discouraging this by not re-electing people into office who lie to us?  Use your voice in your vote on November 6th!

Election day is November 6th, so please make sure you are registered to vote and get to the polls.  Tell Debbie it's not ok to lie to her constituents especially Seniors who get taken advantage of already too much.  They should be able to trust their Representatives when they speak!

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