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Paola Michelle's avatar

Carlos, thank you for creating this news letter. I am from Central Florida, and we are trying our best to organize a more effective movement here. I'm sure you already know, but our local government is trying to work with the Trump administration to build a detention center here in the Florida Everglades. This would be a disaster for many reasons. First, this would give ICE more resources to illegally kidnap and imprison innocent people. Whether they are documented or not, NOBODY deserves to be sent to cages without food or water or basic hygiene needs. This would create more human rights violations in our state. Secondly, the indigenous people who live in the Everglades, the Miccosukee Tribe, would see their land devastated by the construction of a detention center. Lastly, this would cost Floridian tax payers 450 million a year to maintain! Our federal government is planning on taking away our funds from FEMA, the program that protects us from hurricanes and other natural disasters, so that they can fund this detention center.

I'm asking you to please speak out against this. We need more people to know about this horrible development. We need more Floridians to get educated on what is going on so they can get informed on what they can do to stop this detention center from being built. I am working with 50501 to fight back with protests, sit ins, etc. We are also trying to plan a concert or music event in Central Florida to raise awareness. We need to reach out to Latin American artists of all genres that would be willing to participate.

If you have any suggestions or advice, please let me know. We need your guidance more than ever.

Gracias por todo lo que haces por nuestra gente.

Sincerely,

Paola Michelle Andrade

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We need your work and communication and pursuit for all, now more than ever. Bringing together people, in 2 very important languages, can have far reaching positive consequences. Please keep up the support of all the people. Thanks!

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