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It looks like pressure on the Balmoral park tack rooms might get some relief
if many residents can be moved to the center. By the way, from Evergreen Park to Crete has to be over 20 miles, so they better walk fast.
Home > News > Chicagoland Demonstrators march from Little Village to Crete to protest proposed immigration detention center
Esteban Burgoa chants as he and a group of immigrants and supporters walk through Harvey Saturday on the second of their three-day march from Little Village to Crete. They are marching to protest a detention center planned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Crete. (Abel Uribe, Chicago Tribune / March 31, 2012)
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3442 W 26th St, Chicago, IL 60623, USA
Crete Park, Crete, IL 60417, USA
Ads by GoogleBy Antonio Olivo, Chicago Tribune reporter
April 1, 2012
About 40 people started out on a three-day march Friday from Chicago's Little Village neighborhood to Crete, a 40-mile trek that's part of rising opposition to federal plans to build an immigration detention center in the far south suburb.
Last week, the state Senate voted 34-17 to approve legislation that would prohibit privately owned detention centers from being built in Illinois, a measure directly aimed at the proposed Crete facility. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Antonio Munoz, D-Chicago, next goes to a vote in the House.
The proposed 788-bed facility is part of an overhaul of how people who are in the country illegally will be detained. Immigration advocates pushed for more humane conditions after abuses were documented in government jails contracted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Built and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, the center in Crete would include a law library, computers, TVs, two gymnasiums and a cafeteria with "ethnically based" food, according to documents obtained by the Tribune.
Some Crete residents have complained about a lack of transparency in planning for the center, while immigration activists say the detention center is symbolic of a broken system that deports thousands of people while reform efforts go nowhere.
This weekend's marchers stopped to demonstrate briefly in front of Cook County Jail.
"We're going to do whatever it takes to stop construction of this jail," the Rev. Jose Landaverde told the small group.
The group planned to spend Friday night in an Evergreen Park church and get to Crete on Sunday.
aolivo@tribune.com
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Forgot to mention that it is raining on their parade.
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4pezz2 illegally here , building them a nice new facility instead of throwing there asses in jail. damnit, i'd march too. shootme
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Not very hardy protesters if it takes them 3 days to walk 20 miles. I've probably topped that in 1 afternoon at our fair with 3 horses in the box and a few catch-drives.(throw in speed supt, and track man)
And, What part of "illegal" is so hard to understand?
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As luck would have it I was going through Crete about 1:30 this afternoon on my way to a restaurant in Indiana. Lo and behold I got to pass the protest march in downtown Crete. What a rag tag bunch. Of course some Crete residents had joined the March. Maybe there was a100 people. I was wondering how they got there from Evergreen Park so soon. Then I saw the bus following them.
Cheaters just like the Illegals.
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Is this sort of like the Wall Street protests? ??? rflmao1
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I'm glad it wasn't the "Occupy JS's Bathroom March"... somebody woulda got a 'golden shower'. Oh how disrespectful I can be. 8)
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I'm glad it wasn't the "Occupy JS's Bathroom March"... somebody woulda got a 'golden shower'. Oh how disrespectful I can be. 8)
bowdown bowdown
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Was it a bus following them??? Maybe it was either a bus from The state corrections or a roach coach !!!