2/3/25 Take Action: Surprise City Council Meeting Tonight |
It’s been reported that a private company called the Rockefeller Group sold a large warehouse facility to ICE to be used for detention in Surprise, AZ. The City of Surprise will hold a city council meeting on Tuesday, February 3rd at 6 pm at Surprise City Hall at 16000 N Civic Center Plaza. Community groups and grassroots activists will attend the meeting to protest outside the chambers and use the public comment section of the agenda to give testimony about why this facility should not be allowed to move forward. You need to fill out a public comment form in order to speak at Surprise city council. You can fill it out in person during the council meeting or you can fill it out online an hour before the meeting starts. Check the “Call to the Public” option. Each speaker will have no more than three minutes to deliver their testimony. Demands: • Stop the development of this facility Talking points you can share with City Council: • The Rockefeller Group is profiting $70 million of taxpayer money to facilitate the detention of our kidnapped neighbors by ICE. Any business or corporation profiting from ICE’s violence is complicit in the harm they will inflict in our communities. • The City Council must do everything in their power to stop this facility from being developed into a detention center. If they don’t, every City Council member is complicit in supporting Trump’s violent deportation machine and the deaths that are certain to take place in these poorly run facilities. • We have seen the murders of peaceful protestors and the wrongful detention of our community members at the hands of these immigration enforcement agencies. Permanent federal presence in the area would put Surprise residents in danger of violence at the hands of ICE. • The overriding of Surprise zoning laws to install a $70 million dollar, 1,500 bed concentration camp is flagrant federal overreach and irresponsible misuse of taxpayer money. • This warehouse is close to Dysart High School and nearby elementary schools, will disrupt student learning, and put students in danger of violent ICE interaction • If this facility were built, there would be 24/7 ICE presence in the area and in the event of emergency will drain valuable city resources including fire, police, and EMS services, putting Surprise residents in danger Ideas for signage: • ICE in Surprise, Its a Fascist Disguise Thank you for standing in solidarity with our neighbors. |