Hi Rosi
This note was given to us from Marco Saavedra (A#200-203-132), an organizer with the DreamActivist Ohio, currently detained at the Broward Detention Center in Florida.
I am glad the stories we are finding in this detention center are getting back to you all out there. My name is Marco Saavedra and just like my friend Viridiana Martinez I too put myself into deportation proceedings hoping they'd bring me to the Broward Detention Center. Despite being a DREAMer the border patrol office I approached looking for a missing friend didn't think twice about detaining me. Little did they know they were doing exactly what we wanted, bringing us to this detention center filled with low-priority detainees.
SIGN: DEMAND A FULL REVIEW OF ALL BROWARD CASES AND RELEASE OF LOW-PRIORITY DETAINEES
No one deserves to be locked up like they are inside of this facility. A few days ago I met Junior, an Jamaican who has lived here for 19-years. In 2001 Junior was the victim of a robbery, he was shot in the back and the bullet is still in his spine. Junior showed me his leg, he has a blood clot that has gone un-treated, he told me that I could punch his leg as hard as I want and that he wouldn't feel a thing. . . his leg has gone numb. Junior is literally dying in here. The doctors refuse to treat him, saying his pain is from 'worry'. Yes, they are right, it is worry . . worry that he could die at any second, worry that he will not see his son who is in the Navy deploy in a few weeks as ICE plans on deporting him this week.
Every person I talk to is another shining example of why we need Obama's administration to follow its own rules and immediately release all low-priority detainees. It costs money to  detain Junior here, on average $166 a day! That's money that could be spent on something else other than detaining fathers, mothers, even DREAMers in a place like this.
What happens to one of us affects all of us, will you join me in asking for the Obama administration to immediately review all of the cases inside this facility and to administratively close all of the low-priority cases?
I know Viridiana said it and I want to echo her words and make sure that ICE and the Obama administration knows that, as a community, we will not just go away. If I am released someone will take my spot. We will not stop until we can make sure all of these low-priority deportations are stopped.
Please sign the petition, spread the word and help us stop this. Thank you,
Marco Saavedra (Alien# 200-203-132)
National Immigrant Youth Alliance
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