A community protest against the planned CCA immigrant detention center (Pic courtesy Gail Tyree) Residents of the town of Southwest Ranches and the cities of Pembroke Pines and Weston who oppose a federally funded and privately managed immigration detention center in their area will attend a town meeting tonight to call for the resignation of the mayor and town attorney of Southwest Ranches. The Corrections Corporation of America (commonly known as CCA), the largest private immigration detention contractor in the country, is partnering with Southwest Ranches.
“„who oppose the ICE Immigrant Prison in Southwest Ranches are attending tonight’s Town Council Meeting at 7pm. We are sick of the lack of transparency, stonewalling, and ramrodding occurring at Town Hall. We call on Mayor Jeff Nelsonto STEP Down and the Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff to resign as well. We believe they have been complicit in a web of deception and smoke-filled room back door deals all the while imposing a “cone of silence” on the residents. We are disgusted with the current administration of the town and want to see a regime change. How can we continue to trust these people with guiding our Town and to be a beacon to protect our rural lifestyle when they are clearly selling us out?