--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Bob Libal <boblibal@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Bob Libal <boblibal@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [FREE-the-CHILDREN] RE: More than T. Don Hutto...
To: "Antonio Diaz" <texasindigenouscouncil@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 9:09 AM
Thanks Antonio, I am personally going to be in New York on the 22nd, but am supportive of continued protests of Hutto and all immigrant detention centers. - bob
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Antonio Diaz <texasindigenouscouncil@yahoo.com> wrote: | I thank everyone for their input . That is why I put it out there for open debate. I again ask if all that commented will participate Aug.22nd Freedom Walk & Protest Vigil at T.D. Hutto? To think it is over and everyone just go their own way is not unity. The struggle is far from over. Hope that you and the people from Austin will participate. Subject: Re: [FREE-the-CHILDREN] RE: More than T. Don Hutto... Cc: "Antonio Diaz" <texasindigenouscouncil@yahoo.com>, 411show@sbcglobal.net, abnaranjo@aol.com, aburgin4peace@gmail.com, achavarrilla@univisionradio.com, achijatz@yahoo.com, admin@lafuerzaunida.org, alphapalpha@hotmail.com, amal_ammari@yahoo.com, amtierralimpia@sbcglobal.net, aprentis89@aol.com, armando.garcia@rumbonet.com, "arturo" <artaztlan@yahoo.com>, asmith-dieng@detentionwatchnetwork.com, "Aurora" <cihuamexica@gmail.com>, "Sarah B." <sboone@stx.rr.com>, bdavidson@express-news.net, "Maria Antonietta Berriozabal" <maberriozabal@swbell.net>, bnavarro@consulmexsat.org, "Nick Calzoncit" <ncalzoncit@hotmail.com>, Castellanoslaw1@aol.com, causa@att.net, "john champagne" <gaia.brain@gmail.com>, christinarod49@yahoo.com, "Texas Criminal Justice Coalition" <info@criminaljusticecoalition.org>, "Sylvia Colburn" <samcolburn@rickbolanos4tx23.org>, collegvista@yahoo.com, "Ana Yanez Correa" <anacorrea72676@msn.com>, crldefsa@yahoo.com, "c cruz" <ccruz@svrep.org>, cvaladez-mata@sbcglobal.net, darcwallis@aol.com, davidzamoracasas@hotmail.com, delapass13@hotmail.com, "Ofelia Delgado" <sanantoxicana@yahoo.com>, dennisgarza@sbcglobal.net, "CORINA DIAZ" <corina.diaz@att.net>, e-mailjuntos_togerther@hotmail.com, "elaine" <Ewolff@sacurrent..com>, "Maria Elena" <castellanoslaw1@gmail.com>, elpazchuco@yahoo.com, "enrique" <candombe108@yahoo.com>, eric_bottsj@yahoo.com, esperanza@esperanzacenter.org, firm@communitychange.org, "Rights of the Child" <rights-of-the-child-usa@googlegroups.com>, "Luissana Santibanez" <orgullo.tejaztlan@gmail.com>, "Lauren Martin" <lauren.martin@uky.edu>, "Matthew Gossage" <matthewgossage@hotmail.com>
Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 8:02 PM Hi everyone, While there are many questions unanswered and much more work to be done on all these issues, I believe last week's announcement is in fact a major victory. What we know at this point: 1) ICE will not build the three new family detention centers proposed last summer. That is a major victory for our movement. 2) The overall family detention population will decline to pre-Hutto levels. Berks has been open since 2001 and is near capacity. Based on what news reports are saying, some families will be transferred to Berks from Hutto if there is room, but will be released into alternatives to detention programs if there is no additional bed-space at Berks. 3) There is still a lot of work to be done. Clearly the conversion of Hutto to a women's detention center is not a great development (ICE did the same thing to half the facility when the family population declined following the lawsuit settlement). There is still a lot of work to be done to pressure ICE to close Berks as well. Read Michelle Brane's take is here. Also, the TDonHutto.blogspot.com has many of the news stories and some good analysis. Those are my three cents, -- Bob Libal (512) 971-0487 Grassroots Leadership Austin, Texas www.grassrootsleadership.orgCheck out www.texasprisonbidness.org for news and info on the private prison industry in Texas. On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:04 PM, ann staley <staley36@gmail.com> wrote: I can find no information on the Berks Family Shelter. Do we know it is any better? anyone have a link to a site or anything about it? This is closest I came to seeing a pic and learning very little about it except the over crowding: http://readingeagle.com/article..aspx?id=151504http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=509Now, children will no longer be sent to Hutto. In fact, `families' will no longer be sent to Hutto. They're going to the Berks Family Shelter Care Facility, in Leesport, Pennsylvania.
Statement from the link:
But Hutto will stay open, as an all-women's immigration detention center. Michelle Chen, of RaceWire, wrote a terrific piece, "New Direction for Detention?", that explains in great detail what Hutto means for women, what immigrant detention has meant for women. It's been terrible, and there's no reason to think it will improve.http://www.racewire.org/archives/2009/08/new_direction_for_detention.htmlI don't want to rain on any parades, but not trustful of this sudden change. I want more concrete info. annie On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:11 AM, <jay@villadelrio.com> wrote: No need to be sorry, Antonio... We all have a right to call these developments as we see them. We could all have woken up today with totally nothing new in our fight to free the children. This is a major win, but I agree it is not over. With the collaboration of TUFF, between December 14-16, 2006, I walked from Austin to Hutto...most of it alone and my security companion, John Neck, driving behind me. Most of the key core Hutto group had laid the groundwork on Hutto, CCA, WCCC, Puryear, the UN, Amnesty International, Endgame...all in the first couple of moths and half year after that. So, we are not unacquainted with the dynamics of where we are in this war. I have long said that it is not just about Hutto. At first you didn't agree. By what you write below, it is appreciated that you now embrace that same perspective. If Hutto were to close, we would still have ICE imprisoning families in private "for profit" camps. How about SW Keys and the for profit detention of "unaccompanied minors?" Have you protested these? Some of us have. I have also long said that if we could free the children from Hutto we would be able to expose the whole corrupt, racist supremacist, greedy corporate-politico system. Well, in our collaborative effort, we are doing that. We're at the national and international level with our campaign. Local walks and vigils have done their part, but we have to go for the big win. To some of us, the big win is the ratification of the Rights of the Child. Others may and will have a different opinion. November 20th is the 20th anniversary. If the Rights of the Child are ratified, the millions of children in this country will eventually be legally protected from such traumas as has been perpetrated against them by ICE and the complicit law enforcement entities under the 287(g) program, like Arpaio in Arizona. But if Rights of the Child are to be ratified, we will need Congress and the President to make that happen. And...if we want to win Congress and the President...working together is a major key, Antonio. That has been the difference in this equation. Let's be uniters...alliance builders. We're fighting on all fronts...with conviction and dedication. For us, it is not political. It is about moral principles. The toughest part of this is that it takes time. Every day that goes by, another child suffers trauma at the hands of ICE. But we do now have members of Congress working with us and visa versa. Under the new administration, we do have investigations and legislation dealing with most of these issues. We're elevating these moral issues...taking the fight to the highest levels. Meanwhile, because we started as grassroots...we support and participate in local grassroots initiatives. Just like a plant. Grassroots spread out...as the trunk and branches reach higher...in order to bear fruit. Through solidarity...we will succeed... Jay P.S. I believe that any disagreements should not be imposed on anyone. You've expressed yourself before your audience. I've replied. I hope you'll agree that if we have further need of dialog and to unite our thinking, it should be in private...and thereby spare these folks uninvited debate in their in-boxes. jjj -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: More than T. Don Hutto... From: Antonio Diaz < texasindigenouscouncil@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, August 09, 2009 7:03 am To: jay@villadelrio.com, 411show@sbcglobal.net, abnaranjo@aol.com, aburgin4peace@gmail.com, achavarrilla@univisionradio.com, achijatz@yahoo.com, admin@lafuerzaunida.org, alphapalpha@hotmail.com, amal_ammari@yahoo.com, amtierralimpia@sbcglobal.net, antonio < texasindigenouscouncil@yahoo.com>, aprentis89@aol.com, armando.garcia@rumbonet.com, arturo < artaztlan@yahoo.com>, asmith-dieng@detentionwatchnetwork.com, Aurora < cihuamexica@gmail.com>, "Sarah B." < sboone@stx.rr.com>, bdavidson@express-news.net, Maria Antonietta Berriozabal < maberriozabal@swbell.net>, bnavarro@consulmexsat.org, Nick Calzoncit < ncalzoncit@hotmail.com>, Castellanoslaw1@aol.com, causa@att.net, john champagne < gaia.brain@gmail.com>, christinarod49@yahoo.com, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition < info@criminaljusticecoalition.org>, Sylvia Colburn < samcolburn@rickbolanos4tx23.org>, collegvista@yahoo.com, Ana Yanez Correa < anacorrea72676@msn.com>, crldefsa@yahoo.com, c cruz < ccruz@svrep.org>, cvaladez-mata@sbcglobal.net, darcwallis@aol.com, davidzamoracasas@hotmail.com, delapass13@hotmail.com, Ofelia Delgado < sanantoxicana@yahoo.com>, dennisgarza@sbcglobal.net, CORINA DIAZ < corina.diaz@att.net>, e-mailjuntos_togerther@hotmail.com, elaine < Ewolff@sacurrent.com>, Maria Elena < castellanoslaw1@gmail.com>, elpazchuco@yahoo.com, enrique < candombe108@yahoo.com>, erckthered@mail.utexas.edu, eric_bottsj@yahoo.com, erickthered@mail.utexas.edu, esperanza@esperanzacenter.org, Facebook < eventmaster@facebook.com>, firm@communitychange.org | Sorry Jay but there is no victory only reshuffle of detained immigrant population from Families to Single Women. Whether these women have Children initially is not discussed. Where will the Children be Detained is also not discussed. Berks has a very limited capacity,yet it is long term detention Ctr, oh excuse me Shelter. There also was no mention of stopping raids ,roundups or detentions of any kind only that Families would no longer be detained in Taylor`s T. D. Hutto Res. Ctr.(Prison for profit). Also that a new office that will manage where immigrant people will be held is being created under the thumb of a lifelong prosecuter a Mr. Morton, office of Oversight of Immigration Detention Ctrs. Question whether all the Women to be imprisoned at T.D. Hutto have a Criminal Record or why they will be held at a Criminal facility if they have committed no crime other then to ask for Asylum or Refugee Status. No Victory yet not by a long shot. Sorry to say but all that the govt. is doing is Damage Control because we were starting to Galvanize a Movement of Moral Conscience. They think that the have taken away our Cause. we will keep on with the Struggle until there are no more Families in Private Prisons in the United States of America. Until there is Justice for Immigrant Women for Men for Children for Human Beings. Let us remember This is about Human Dignity and no Human Being is Illegal. The old Shell Game is no Victory. Let us not be so Naive. Si Se Puede! Antonio Diaz Texas Indigenous Council
From: jay@villadelrio.com <jay@villadelrio.com>
Subject: More than T. Don Hutto...
To:
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 11:21 PM Del Rio, Texas. Today, ICE delineated its latest policies regarding the T. Don Hutto immigrant family prison in Texas and other "for profit" immigrant internment camps. The following are press comments from Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr., founder of Border Ambassadors, who participated in coordinating protest walks to bring local, national and international attention to the imprisonment of innocent children "for profit." All across this country, folks are rejoicing over the latest decision coming from ICE, of the Department of Homeland Security, under the direction of the Obama Administration, to begin a transformation of immigrant detention policies...starting with T. Don Hutto. (See attached ICE document) When it comes to the end of children being imprisoned on American soil, right here in Texas, this victory is more that just about T. Don Hutto. After the suffering of thousands of children and their families, this decision to quit imprisoning innocent children in a privately run "for profit" prison, is a victory, for not only the children, but, for the small group of "we the people" who engaged in the confrontation of human dignity over human cruelty, a group that grew to thousands around the country. It is also a victory for the hundreds of thousands of other innocent immigrant children in this country that would have been victims of ICE fulfilling the blueprint of Operation Endgame. By exposing the conditions of T. Don Hutto, the entire system of federal corporatism. While we rejoice all across this country, we do well to realize that there is more to do. Because Hutto has violated every one of those international rights of children, for over two years, the Hutto grassroots citizens have featured Rights of the Child at our Hutto walks and vigils for over two years now. That is why a growing group of these same grassroots citizens that came together to fight for the freedom of the children imprisoned in Hutto, have launched a new campaign. They have formed a new group, known as Rights of the Child USA. Rights of the Child USA is therefore organizing for a major networking initiative...to build an alliance of hundreds of organizations from around the country...to promote the ratification of the UN Rights of the Child (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm). Why? In 1989, the UN held the Convention on the Rights of the Child . Rights of the Child was adopted in 1990. That same year, the US Congress voted to ratify the Rights of the Child. Yet, President George H.W. Bush refused to sign the legislation. Under President Bill Clinton, the Rights of the Child was never important enough to get it ratified. Under George W. Bush, thousands of immigrant children all across this country were victims of some of the harshest treatment, imprisoned "for profit" by the Bush cronies, and deported by the hundreds of thousands. Untold hundreds have died under the policies of Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, DHS and ICE. It is now 2009...twenty years later. With the exception of Somalia, the United States is the only country in the world that has refused to ratify the Rights of the Child. Rights of the Child USA has every confidence that the Obama Administration, that just chose to end the imprisonment of innocent immigrant children "for profit" in T. Don Hutto, will also ratify the international Rights of the Child. If you or your organization would be interested in joining this movement and supporting legislation to ratify the Rights of the Child, or know of others who would, please feel free to contact Border Ambassadors as well as share the following contact information. Jay Border Ambassadors Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr. (830)734-8636
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