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San Jose, CA \u2013 On June 14. around 300 protestors hit the streets in San Jose to protest against ICE\u2019s plans to open a detention and processing center in the southern part of Santa Clara County near Gilroy, California. At around a million residents, San Jose is the largest city in Santa Clara County, one of the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. Local activists say the detention center will impact all Bay Area residents.<\/p>\n
ICE\u2019s plans to build a detention center in Gilroy began circulating amongst the San Francisco Bay Area residents earlier this year. Now that blueprints of the facility have come out, confirming that the 20,000 square foot facility will have the capability to hold detainees, local organizations are mobilizing to hit the streets and protest the construction site.<\/p>\n
Huy Tran of the Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network warned, \u201cThe expanded facilities here in Gilroy are going to make ICE a worse threat by providing more holding cells and training more ICE agents to attack us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The construction of the Gilroy detention center comes at a time when detainees are launching hunger strikes in Delaney and Adelanto detention centers, in New Jersey and California.<\/p>\n
Uriel Magdaleno of Community Service Organization San Jose condemned the conditions of the centers. \u201cThe Legalization for All network stands in unwavering solidarity with the hunger strikes,\u201d stated Magdaleno. In the past year, there have been over 50 detainees\u2019 deaths confirmed.<\/p>\n
Magdaleno continued, \u201cConditions inside these facilities worsen daily, people are denied basic human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
The day before the protest, Community Service Organization Oakland participated in a car caravan to California City in coordination with the Legalization for All network\u2019s weekend of action against detention centers. At the Gilroy protest, Danny Celaya with CSO Oakland spoke to attendees about the previous day\u2019s caravan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conditions there [in California City detention center] are grotesque, inhumane and reports of guards dehumanizing detainees as dogs,\u201d stated Celaya. \u201cWe need to continue to fight for immigrant rights and say down with detention centers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The protesters marched to the detention center construction site in Gilroy with banners that read \u201cStop ICE\u2019s detention centers,\u201d \u201cLegalization for all,\u201d and \u201cFree Guillermo now,\u201d referring to local community member Guillermo Medina Reyes who has been in detention since February of this year. The march concluded with a rally where Rebeca Armendariz of Community Agency for Resources Advocacy and Services stated, \u201cWe will be back.\u201d<\/p>\n
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