Monthly vigils take place at the site, organized by Coloradans for Immigrant Rights and the American Friends Service Committee. This month protestors read poems, sang songs, and chanted, with the hopes that those inside would know that someone outside cares about their fate, someone outside is opposed to the badly broken immigration system that locks up people without due process – no lawyers, no phone calls, separated from families who may or may not know their fate.
Also in attendance at the protest were members of the 10:30 Catholic Community, Comunidad Liberación, Denver Justice & Peace Committee, students from Regis University and Iliff School of Theology, members of the Higher Education Access Alliance, and the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism Movement.
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The building is enormous, several hundred thousand square feet with small dark windows along the side
The facility is owned and operated by the GEO corporation, which makes $130 per day per immigrant locked up inside, with capacity for 600 more in its newly expanded facility. This company along with other private corrections corporations helped get the barbaric Arizona immigration law passed, and are pushing for the same in other states.
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