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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, March 20, 2013

Federal Court Dismisses CCA Lawsuit

LATE BREAKING NEWS. DATELINE MARCH 20, 2013. PEMBROKE PINES, BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA.

 IN A STUNNING SETBACK TO CCA'S ATTEMPT TO BULLY THE CITY OF PEMBROKE PINES, THE US DISTRICT COURT OF FLORIDA RULED AGAINST THEIR SPECIOUS CLAIM THAT THEIR EQUAL PROTECTION RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED AND TOLD CCA TO FOLLOW THE PROCESS IN FLORIDA COURTS.


 LEST YOU ARE FOOLED (UNLIKE THE FEDERAL COURTS) THAT THIS IS A CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE OF "EQUAL PROTECTION", WE NEED TO REMIND THE READERS THAT THE DE FACTO TOWN MANAGER, ATTORNEY KEITH POLIAKOFF AND HIS PATSIES ON THE COUNCIL, HAVE REPEATEDLY **DENIED** TAX PAYING RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST RANCHES THE ABILITY TO HOOK UP TO MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLIES SUCH AS THE SUNRISE WATER DISTRICT OR PEMBROKE PINES EVEN THOUGH THEIR NEIGHBORS ARE HOOKED UP.  THIS IS NOT EQUAL PROTECTION, BUT **SPECIAL** TREATMENT FOR LOBBYISTS AND CORPORATIONS SUCH AS PRISON, INC. THAT WE PLEBEIANS AREN'T AFFORDED.  PAY TO PLAY...

 ALMOST A YEAR AGO TO THIS DATE, PEMBROKE PINES TERMINATED AGREEMENTS WITH THE TOWN OF SOUTHWEST RANCHES TO PROVIDE FIRE/EMS, WATER AND SEWER HOOKUPS TO THE PROPOSED IMMIGRANT PRISON IN THE NON-CONTIGUOUS PARCEL OF LAND ADJACENT TO THE LAGUNA ISLES GATED COMMUNITY AND BARELY 1 MILE FROM THE $140MM A RATED WEST BROWARD HIGH SCHOOL.

 PEMBROKE PINES WANTED FLORIDA COURTS TO JUDGE WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE AGREEMENTS.  IN A MONUMENTAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY, CCA FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST PEMBROKE PINES INSTEAD OF GOING TO STATE COURT WHICH HAD AUTHORITY.

IN A STINGING REBUKE, JUDGE ZLOCH SAID, "LITIGATING THE VERY SAME ISSUES IN PARALLEL ACTIONS INVITES THE POTENTIAL FOR INCONSISTENT RULINGS AND IS, IN EVERY PRACTICAL SENSE, AN INEFFICIENT USE OF SCARCE JUDICIAL RESOURCES."

ICE HAS BEGUN RELEASING DETAINEES DEMONSTRATING THAT THIS FACILITY, AS WE'VE SAID ALL ALONG, IS NOT NEEDED AND IS A WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY.  IN LIGHT OF THE RELEASE OF DETAINEES, SOUTHWEST RANCHES IS STILL POSTURING THAT THE FACILITY WILL BE BUILT.  SW RANCHES MAYOR NELSON IS A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF THE PRISON.

 SOUTHWEST RANCHES HAS ILL ADVISEDLY SUED PEMBROKE PINES FOR "TORTUOUS INTERFERENCE IN A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP."  THIS HAS NOT BEEN RULED ON YET.  STAY TUNED.  OUR PRESS RELEASE CAN BE READ HERE.

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