“Opponents Ramp Up Campaign Against Crete Immigrant Detention Center” @ CBS Chicago
Posted on April 23, 2012
April 23, 2012: “CRETE, Ill. (CBS) — Opponents are ramping up their campaign against a proposed detention center for illegal immigrants to be built in south suburban Crete.
“Can we keep the Crete detention center from becoming a reality just south of Chicago?” an immigration rights activist asked a crowd. “Yes we can!” They all answered.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, activists say the proposed 800-bed facility is especially repugnant because it would be built and run privately by a company called Corrections Corp. of America, or CCA – the nation’s largest operator of private prisons.
Sister JoAnn Persch opposes it for that alone.
“No one should profit from human misery,” she said.
Crete village officials who support the proposed center see it as a job creation project. But Jerry Calloway, who lives in Crete, says it would hurt the community…………………………………………….”
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