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April 10th - A Call to Protest the Tent City Detention Center
by SDS @ UH
Sunday, Mar. 07, 2010 at 7:21 AM
sdsuhtx (A) gmail dot com
Fliers for upcoming protest at the Tent City Detention Center in South Texas, the largest detention center in the country.
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Students for a Democratic Society at UH calls for a Protest!!
Shut down Tent City - Saturday April 10th at 11am,
Willacy County Processing Center
1800 Industrial Drive
Raymondville, TX 78580
Caravan Leaves Houston Friday April 9th
Contact SDS for details: sdsuhtx@gmail.com
More info: http://detentionwatchnetwork.org/DND_main and http://sdshouston.wordpress.com
Texas has one of the highest concentrations of detention centers in the country with a capacity to detain more than 10,000 immigrants at any one time. The largest detention center in the US, the 3,086 bed Willacy County Detention Center (aka Tent City because it is largely built out of a series of kevlar pods) has seen repeated allegations of human rights abuses. Owned by the Utah-based Management and Training Corporation (MTC), Tent City is one of many detention centers run for profit and with little federal oversight. As we called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate, however, detainees at the ICE-owned Port 1,500 bed Isabel Detention Center (PIDC) launched a hunger strike. The problems at PIDC show that ICE oversight cannot solve the problems at Tent City, and so Texans United for Families calls on the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to:
* Close Tent City and the Port Isabel Detention Center.
* Respond to human rights abuse allegation through a transparent grievance process.
* End detainee transfers away from loved ones and communities of support.
* Ensure due process by reducing Texas immigration court dockets to reasonable levels.
For more information about Texans United for Families please contact Bob Libal at blibal@grassrootsleadership.org or call 512-971-0487
detentionwatchnetwork.org/DND_tx
Black and White high quality flier
by SDS @ UH
Sunday, Mar. 07, 2010 at 7:21 AM
sdsuhtx (A) gmail dot com
download PDF (8.1 mebibytes)
Please print and distribute this!
detentionwatchnetwork.org/DND_tx
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