NO ICE! Pine Island City Council meeting last night

July 18th, 2018

I should have gone up in the front row and captured the smirk on the Mayor’s face through almost all of the meeting.  Was he nervous and feeling the heat, or was he dismissive of everyone who showed up?  Showed up for what?  For the Pine Island City Council meeting, the first one after City Council meeting where they voted to approve a resolution of support for Management and Training Corporation’s 640 bed ICE detention facility.

Here’s Alan Muller’s comment:

FULL meeting link — City says their site is broken so they posted it HERE – CITY FB PAGE

Here’s the Post Bulletin on the meeting:

Crowd weighs in on potential Pine Island ICE facility

The ICE request for proposals:

Immigration Detention Services – Multiple Areas of Responsibility 

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No ICE detention in Pine Island!

July 1st, 2018

Fair use from Rolling Stone

Next Pine Island City Council meeting: 7/17 at 7!

City Council Meetings are held the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7 pm on the 2nd floor of City Hall. City Council Meetings can be viewed here.

In New York Times:

All over U.S., Local Officials Cancel Deals to Detain Immigrants

The ICE request for proposals:

Immigration Detention Services – Multiple Areas of Responsibility 

Request_for_Information_Multiple_AOR_2017_Final.pdf

Summary-of-Responses-to-October-2017-ICE

Pine Island – Proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement in which Pine Island says:

Right…

Let Pine Island know what you think about an ICE detention facility:

Mayor Rod Steele <rodamic49@hotmail.com>, Jerry Vettel <tarboxgv@gmail.com>, Jason Johnson <jacareaz3@gmail.com>, Mike Hildenbrand <hildenbrand.mike@gmail.com>, David Friese <davidfriese.cityofpineisland@gmail.com>, City Administrator <david.todd@ci.pineisland.mn.us>, Finance-Account Clerk <carol.krueger@ci.pineisland.mn.us>, Economic Development Director <pieda@bevcomm.net>

Some recent articles:

Should Pine Island stay in the discussion for ICE detention center?

Our View: ICE looks at Pine Island for detention center

Pine Island Looked at as Potential Site for ICE Detention Center

How one Minn. town is weighing the morals and economics of immigrant detention

 

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