Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/31/2018
7:00 pm
Location
Berks Family Residential Center
Categories No Categories
Hosted by Shut Down Berks Interfaith Witness and 4 others
CARAVAN OF GRANNIES STOPPING NEAR READING, PA ON THEIR WAY TO THE BORDER
We are on a 2,000-mile journey to the border to protest the inhumane treatment of immigrants. And on Tuesday, July 31st, we’re stopping for rest near Reading, Pennsylvania.
We will hold a vigil right outside Berks Family Residential Center from 7 pm to 8 pm.
FYI: Parking is available at the buildings across the road and down the hill from the center.
This event is hosted in collaboration with:
-Shut Down Berks Interfaith
-Shut Down Berks Collation
-UUPLAN (Unitarian Universalist Pennsylvania Legislative Advocacy Network)
-First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County
-Reading (Quakers) Friends
After a good night’s rest, we’ll leave the next morning. Hopefully with YOU! You do NOT have to be a grandmother to come with us. ALL are welcome!
Website: https://www.granniesrespond.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/granniesrespond/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/granniesrespond/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/granniesrespond
Press Release: https://padlet.com/granniesrespond/pressrelease
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Additional Information:
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Pennsylvania is one of two states in the nation that hosts a prison for immigrant children, known as the Berks County Detention Center, the others being Texas. Families have reported verbal abuse, workers’ rights abuses, medical neglect and in its first year of operation a mother was raped in front of other families.
Governor Wolf has known for two years that his administration could remove families from the abuse and neglect that they have been enduring in the Berks County Family Detention Center. The Governor’s administration has done the bare minimum to right the immoral and illegal detention of immigrant families. Families continue to be abused under the state’s watch. Governor Wolf is up for reelection in 2018. We need a Governor who goes beyond words, someone who takes action for the immigrant community. If he wants to count on the progressive vote, then he needs to act by issuing an emergency removal order on the Berks County Family Detention Center NOW. In June of 2017 a federal judge ruled yet again that the detention of children is a violation of federal regulations. Yet the BCRC has done nothing to comply with the judge’s order. The state is opening itself up to serious legal liability by facilitating BCRC ongoing violation of the court’s order.
Pennsylvania es uno de dos estados en la nación que alberga una prisión para niños inmigrantes conocido como el Berks County Detention Center (BCDC) o Berks Family Residential Center; el otro centro de detención está en Texas. Las familias han reportado abusos verbales y laborales, negligencia médica, y en su primer año de operación, una madre fue violada en frente de otras familias.
El Gobernador Wolf ha sabido por dos años que su administración podría liberar a las familias del abuso y negligencia que han estado soportando dentro del BCDC. La administración del Gobernador no ha efectuado más que mínimos esfuerzos para corregir la detención ilegal e inmoral de familias inmigrantes. Estas familias continúan soportando abusos bajo la vigilancia del estado. El Gobernador Wolf es candidato para reelección en 2018. Necesitamos un Gobernador que más que palabras, tome acciones a favor de la comunidad inmigrante. Si el Gobernador Wolf desea el voto progresista, entonces tiene que decretar una orden de emergencia para liberar a las familias en el centro de detención DE INMEDIATO. En Junio de 2017, un juez federal nuevamente dictaminó que la detención de menores es una violación de la ley federal. Aún así, el BCDC no ha tomado pasos para cumplir con la orden del juez. El estado está abriendo la puerta a serios problemas legales al permitir las funciones del BCDC en violación de las órdenes de la corte.