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Please call your state lawmakers, post on social media, and speak with your neighbors in opposition to a GIANT ICE DETENTION CENTER IN UTAH
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UTAH has been spared the worst ICE actions in 2025 but that could change if a 10,000 bed detention center were built here.
- Governor Cox welcomes this dangerous plan
- Such a camp would increase the capacity by a factor of 3!!!!!
- Utah currently has ~ 5000 correctional beds.
- If Utah truly welcomes the world for the Olympics in 2034, having ICE racially profiling residents and visitors is "a bad look".
- Detention centers are incubators for diseases, particularly when many reports of unsanitary conditions, no clean water, lack of hygiene, overcrowding, and scores of violations occur. COVID outbreaks are a worry and they could overwhelm rural health systems
- Cruel and unusual punishment is reported in many facilities,
- Oversight has been stopped-illegally, amid a four-fold increase in deaths within such facilities
- Conditions are so bad that Republican House member Mike Kennedy has submitted a bill requiring that minimum standards be met at all federal detention. facilities.
- One ICE facility is known for its maggots and numerous runs of ambulances
THE ACTION ITEM:
Please Call your state lawmakers, post on social media, and speak with your neighbors in opposition to a detention Center in Utah
More Talking points:
- Inhumane treatment of our neighbors is in violation of the fundamental tenets of almost every world religion.
- Inhumane conditions are well-documented in several detention centers and the rates of death have climbed under this dictatorship.
- https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration
- The conditions there—dirty cells crammed with dozens of detainees, limited drinking water, cold sandwiches for meals, open toilets—were so appalling that a federal judge on Tuesday called them “disgusting.”
- The first year of the second Trump administration has been even deadlier than 2020, when the unchecked COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the high death toll in detention facilities. SOURCE: AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
COUNCIL. in late October 23 persons have died. - People have also died, been shot at, assaulted, and harmed in other ways as agents attempt to round up people for detention centers:
- Marimar Martinez, in Chicago was warning her community of immigration enforcement actions. Annoyed by this, agents boxed in her car, hit and damaged her car, then Exum, a border Patrol Agent called her a b@@@@ and fired 5 bullets into her at point blank range. Amazingly she survied this attempted murder. Exum drove his damage government vehicle to Maine, requested that the damage on the vehicle be repaired, destroying evidence of his aggression, and he boasted of his marksmanship in a group chat. Original false claims by the federal government asserted that citizen Martinez was one of 10 vehicles that boxed in agents, and that she brandished a gun.
- Jaime Alanís, 57, died a day after falling off a greenhouse roof during an immigration raid of a cannabis farm.
- Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, 38, was pulled over and eventually shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Franklin Park, Illinois on September 12, just after dropping off his two children at Passow Elementary School and Small World Learning Center, a daycare located blocks away from the incident. Federal agency falsely claimed he has dragged a federal agent but video evidence clearly refutes this claim.
- Utah ALREADY has a black mark for its Japanese-American detention center at Topaz Mountain. Let's not repeat that history.
- Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in Utah do NOT welcome ICE or Border Patrol into our communities. Logan, Utah led the way in hosting a packed community meeting to inform the public about policies and laws that impact our immigrant communities.
- UPR story about the meeting (except that the audience had >100-110 people in attendance, not ~60).
- Herald Journal's Article about the meeting.
- ICE and Border Patrol have a well-documented record of lying about their actions, their intentions, and several judges have rules them to be 'unreliable' and liars.
ACTIONS WE CAN TAKE:
TRAIN to protect our neighbor
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