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A Town of Immigrant Farm Workers Says No to ICE Detention Centers
New York Times via Yahoo! News ^
| February 20, 2020
| by Miriam Jordan, The New York Times
Posted on 02/20/2020 1:38:38 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
McFARLAND, Calif. As an immigrant in the country illegally, Maribel Ramirez does not officially have a say in the affairs of the small agricultural town in Californias Central Valley that she has called home for 20 years.
But late into the night Tuesday, she stood with hundreds of field workers and other residents outside McFarlands City Council chambers, a bullhorn in her hand. No ICE! No GEO! Were farmworkers, not delinquents, they chanted in Spanish, led by Ramirez, 42.
At issue was a multibillion-dollar corporations proposal to convert two state prisons slated for closure into detention centers for immigrants in the country illegally, operated under contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement a plan that city leaders said could provide this impoverished town with a financial lifeline.
A new law in California outlawing private prisons will cost the city $1.5 million a year in taxes and other fees paid by the prison corporation, the GEO Group, unless the company can convert the two facilities it has operated there into immigration detention centers.
McFarland, which gained its only previous measure of fame in the 2015 Kevin Costner movie, McFarland, USA, is home to thousands of workers like Ramirez, who toil in the vineyards and the almond, pistachio and citrus orchards that stretch out in every direction. Up to half of the citys 15,000 residents, according to private estimates, are in the country illegally.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: border; farms; illegalaliens; immigration; invasion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Were farmworkers, not delinquents... Maybe...maybe not. It depends upon whether you're here legally or not.
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:41:44 PM PST
by
econjack
To: Oldeconomybuyer
She had 20 years to apply and didn’t?
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:42:39 PM PST
by
Gman
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The criminals need to be rounded up and tossed back to their own countries- let them protest back home.
So much for the democrat claims of them living in the shadows/living in fear.
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:43:05 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well it’s either the ICE detention center or the ICE euthanasia center. Take you pick.
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:43:07 PM PST
by
BuffaloJack
("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
No ICE! No GEO! Were farmworkers, not delinquents, they chanted in SpanishNo detention centers needed for them - just trebuchets.
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:43:53 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
she stood with hundreds of field workers and other residents outside McFarlands City Council chambers, a bullhorn in her hand. No ICE! No GEO! Were farmworkers, not delinquents, they chanted in SpanishThis is who Big Agri's "temporary visa laborers" will be, BTW.
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:46:42 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wuhan needs workers right now, lets start some flights!!!
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:51:55 PM PST
by
datura
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Immigrant workers (trespassers) oppose immigration laws. Let me think................
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:52:01 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Gman
Well, toiling in the fields 200 hours a week doesn’t leave much time for trivial stuff.
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:52:57 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: econjack
Let's go to AOC
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:53:17 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Did she start
demanding stuff?
I love it when they "demand" chit.
I think they all learned that from the muzzies.
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posted on
02/20/2020 1:53:25 PM PST
by
skimbell
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess we could go to Oregon or Washington. There are farm jobs there.Or - just a thought - you could go somewhere you have the legal right to be.
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posted on
02/20/2020 2:05:59 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
These are just the nests that need removal.
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posted on
02/20/2020 2:07:00 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Bell Bouy II
Tuff. Go farm back home. Get outta here.
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posted on
02/20/2020 2:14:23 PM PST
by
EinNYC
To: Gman
"they chanted in Spanish, led by Ramirez, 42."
TWENTY f'ing years in the USA and they have to chant in Spanish?
I'm not fluent, but I can at least "get by" in Spanish.
Give me about six months in Mexico and I would be fluent.
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posted on
02/20/2020 3:11:22 PM PST
by
boop
(Diarrhea: "So hot right now!")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This dame needs to be on the next flight out.
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posted on
02/20/2020 4:06:48 PM PST
by
jocon307
(Dem party delenda est!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
02/20/2020 4:44:25 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Gman
Illegal aliens that have already broken in cannot apply.
The application comes first. Then you wait your turn.
Once they’ve broken in they have to go home and apply.
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posted on
02/20/2020 4:46:20 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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