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IA: Opponents Stop Urbandale Immigrant Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Protesters block Urbandale immigration facility By SARA SLEYSTER November 10, 2010 Des Moines Register The controversy over a plan for a federal immigration enforcement facility in Urbandale has ended. A day after a public hearing drew more than 100 protesters and city officials voted against the facility, the government decided not to move forward. Officials said they didn't know what would happen next. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, had requested a zoning variance for an office that would have included holding cells for alleged illegal immigrants. The site would have been in a warehouse along 121st Street near Meredith Drive and east of a residential area. The matter will no longer go to the Urbandale City Council for consideration later this month, Urbandale Mayor Bob Andeweg said Tuesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).