Showing posts with label ice detention center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice detention center. Show all posts
Monday, May 28, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Davie Fire/EMS Contract with SWR
The Town of Davie has just posted a contract with their agenda item to discuss providing the town of Southwest Ranches with Fire/EMS services, coverage that would extend to the plans the Town has for a future 2500 bed 500,000 sq. ft. detention center.
See the excerpt taken from contract below.
Remember back in November when they said they were going to cap it at 1500 beds? We didn't believe them, and now we see that we were right to not trust the Town and CCA capping the beds at 1500. All the Town and CCA care about is showing them the money because their Town is drowning in liabilities for parks brought in from the Canada days...
Now they have almost doubled this facility from 1500 beds to 2500 which would be 4.5 times the size of Krome brought into West Broward County. Krome is a 500 bed facility. To put this in terms that you might understand better we are going to do some Wal-Mart math.
The average Walmart store is approximately 97,000 square feet, while
Walmart's larger stores, referred to as Super Centers, carries a square
footage of approximately 186,000. - Ask.com
How do you like THEM apples?
If not, email the Davie Council and make your voice heard by asking them not to allow this to happen. Email your Officials. Better Yet, ATTEND the Davie Town Council meeting located at 6591 Orange Drive on Wednesday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm. Pembroke Pines said they didn't have a vote on the Detention Center yet they were called on it for providing Fire/EMS and Water/Sewer for it in the Fire/EMS Agreement. Politifact did a nice article on that.
Do they not realize how secure communities and this detention center will ruin our community?
Download the entire Davie Fire/EMS contract here.
CCA rebuttal 7.pdf
Monday, February 6, 2012
The CCA Advisory Meeting -- A Place of Surrender
Pembroke Pines Commissioner Carl Shechter warned us about inconsistent messages when they debated the resolution to inform the President that we did not want this detention center. He said that the inclusion of the 10 demands to ICE "should" they insist on building the prison anyway, sent an inconsistent message and telegraphed defeat.
All those involved, from the 4 commissioners and Mayor to every single public speaker were very clear in that we are not going to negotiate terms of surrender. The resolution included statements from 19 HOAs representing 90,000 (at a bare minimum) of the 150,000 residents of Pembroke Pines that they STAUNCHLY oppose the immigrant prison.
In order to complete the legitimacy of the process of jamming a prison down our throats, private prison company Corrections Corporation of America, LLC, has been conducting closed-to-the-public advisory group meetings which are by invitation only and spearheaded by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is also the chair of the Democratic National Committee in an attempt to justify that the public was listened to and she was correct in endorsing the immigrant prison.
These meetings are being used to undermine your opposition to the prison by bringing legitimacy to the negotiations you are engaged in to give us the best prison we can get. You are writing our terms of surrender and we have made our voices clear. NO SURRENDER.
If you disagree with this assessment, please read the following letter from Director of Enforcement and Removal, Gary Mead as he responded to Mayor Frank Ortis' demand that Southwest Ranches be taken out of consideration. He's actually calling these sham advisory meetings "town council meetings."
This is a travesty of representative government. Again, the advisory meetings you are attending are by invitation only and they EXCLUDE those who refuse to negotiate for the "best prison we can get" including most members of the Residents Against the SW Ranches ICE Detention Center.
HOA presidents, your attendance lends credibility to their process. Your actions are undermining opposition to the prison. You need to immediately boycott these meetings especially if you signed on to this resolution in opposing the prison.
There are no negotiations. We will only discuss THEIR concession to leave our communities alone.
All those involved, from the 4 commissioners and Mayor to every single public speaker were very clear in that we are not going to negotiate terms of surrender. The resolution included statements from 19 HOAs representing 90,000 (at a bare minimum) of the 150,000 residents of Pembroke Pines that they STAUNCHLY oppose the immigrant prison.
In order to complete the legitimacy of the process of jamming a prison down our throats, private prison company Corrections Corporation of America, LLC, has been conducting closed-to-the-public advisory group meetings which are by invitation only and spearheaded by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is also the chair of the Democratic National Committee in an attempt to justify that the public was listened to and she was correct in endorsing the immigrant prison.
These meetings are being used to undermine your opposition to the prison by bringing legitimacy to the negotiations you are engaged in to give us the best prison we can get. You are writing our terms of surrender and we have made our voices clear. NO SURRENDER.
If you disagree with this assessment, please read the following letter from Director of Enforcement and Removal, Gary Mead as he responded to Mayor Frank Ortis' demand that Southwest Ranches be taken out of consideration. He's actually calling these sham advisory meetings "town council meetings."
This is a travesty of representative government. Again, the advisory meetings you are attending are by invitation only and they EXCLUDE those who refuse to negotiate for the "best prison we can get" including most members of the Residents Against the SW Ranches ICE Detention Center.
HOA presidents, your attendance lends credibility to their process. Your actions are undermining opposition to the prison. You need to immediately boycott these meetings especially if you signed on to this resolution in opposing the prison.
There are no negotiations. We will only discuss THEIR concession to leave our communities alone.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Jay Schwartz Opposes ICE Detention Center
NEWS ALERT! CITY COMMISSION DISTRICT 2 CANDIDATE JAY SCHWARTZ PUBLICLY OPPOSES ICE DETENTION CENTER.
"I ask my fellow residents to join me to fight against having this facility in our community. It will have a negative impact on our lives, our children, and I encourage you to reach out to all elected officials and tell them to stand up for us."
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Vice Mayor McKay says, "Do Your Homework."
Thank you Vice Mayor McKay. Your warning to "do your homework" has been headed by Coldwell Banker. They are now doing what they are obligated to do and informing their perspective clients to the fact that you all on the Council wish to DECIMATE property values for a mere pittance that you can squander on putting your names on parks or your $600K a year Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff's earnings.
Thanks a bunch for nothing Congresswoman and DNC party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Senator Bill Nelson, Mayor Jeff Nelson, Vice Mayor Doug McKay, Councilman Gary Jablonski, Councilman Steve Breitkreuz, and Councilman Freddie Fisikelli. Thank you Commissioner Angelo Castillo, Mayor Frank Ortis, Commissioner Carl Shechter, and Commissioner Jack McKluskey.
Your magic is starting to work. You all have worked tirelessly to ensure we get a nice immigrant prison in our back yard. It's starting to pay off and it hasn't even been built yet!
ADDENDUM
At the Fire workshop at Pembroke Pines tonight, Mrs. Frank Ortis researched this document and found that the scope is applied to ALL houses west of I75, south of Griffin and north of pines. Further, she indicated that she expected all major real estate companies would be protecting themselves with similar documents.
Your magic is starting to work. You all have worked tirelessly to ensure we get a nice immigrant prison in our back yard. It's starting to pay off and it hasn't even been built yet!
ADDENDUM
At the Fire workshop at Pembroke Pines tonight, Mrs. Frank Ortis researched this document and found that the scope is applied to ALL houses west of I75, south of Griffin and north of pines. Further, she indicated that she expected all major real estate companies would be protecting themselves with similar documents.
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