[Peace-discuss] sign petition to stop another private ICE detention prison Pembroke Pines detention center in FL

[Karen Medina]

ICE and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) plan to build a massive
immigration detention center in the Town of Southwest Ranches, just 30
minutes from Miami, FL. With 1,500 beds, this prison will be one of the
largest in the country.

Since it hit the news last summer, immigrant rights’ advocates, residents
and even environmentalists in South Florida, have voiced a strong and
growing opposition against this new facility. The community has called on
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(D-20) to withdraw their current endorsements for CCA’s project. The
controversy has grown to the point that the neighboring City of Pembroke
Pines cut off the water that CCA needs for this development.

The will of the people has fallen on deaf ears. ICE, CCA and the Town of
Southwest Ranches keep moving forward with the project.

*Help us put the FREEZE on ICE and tell CCA to GO AWAY!*

The Southwest Ranches center is one of several facilities that ICE seeks to
build throughout the country, in partnership with for-profit prison giants
like CCA and the GEO Group, notorious for neglect and abuse of detainees.

Why does ICE need more immigration detention centers? There are already
approximately 34,000 beds in the U.S., and 2,400 in Florida alone.
Furthermore, ICE has already deported over 1 million immigrants since 2009,
and the vast majority posed no threat to society.

Expanding costly immigration detention will only benefit for-profit
companies while tearing more families apart. The Obama Administration
announced a change in their priorities for detentions and deportations, to
focus on real national security concerns, not on separating parents from
their children or deporting DREAMers who are only seeking a better future.

It’s time for ICE to stop the immigrant money making machine and tell CCA
to GO AWAY.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Kilgore <jjincu at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:21 AM
Subject: sign petition to stop another private prisons - Pembroke Pines
anti-detention center petition
To: James Kilgore <jjincu at gmail.com>


Dear Friends,

I've been working with the embattled residents of Southwest Ranches and
Pembroke Pines, Florida, in Broward County for some time.  CCA, a
corporation that has specialized in the commodification of human beings is
forcing itself on these communities to build a supposed "detention center,"
just another name for a multiple-use prison.

CCA has failed with its million dollar campaign to force itself on these
communities.  When Pembroke Pines passed a resolution to deny the
corporation the sewer and water services it demanded, CCA immediately filed
a suit against the town, essentially against the local taxpayers.

If you could take a moment to sign this petititon, I would greatly
appreciate it, as would the threatened residents.  If you would pass it
along to others, that would be even more helpful.

http://www.change.org/**petitions/cca-go-away-from-**south-florida<http://www.change.org/petitions/cca-go-away-from-south-florida>

Thank you so much!






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James Kilgore
Research Scholar
Center for African Studies
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
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