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Resident tells Dysart board to act to protect students from nearby ICE facility
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Summary
Natalie Bautista urged the Dysart Governing Board to adopt safeguards after saying an ICE facility planned near Surprise is one mile from Dysart High School and that an Arizona oversight visit to a Mesa facility documented long detentions and inhumane conditions.
At the Dysart Governing Board meeting on April 13, resident Natalie Bautista used the public comment period to urge the board to take steps to protect students and families from an ICE detention facility planned about one mile from Dysart High School.
"I'm respectfully asking for everyone on this governing board to do everything you can to protect our students and our community from the ICE detention facility in Surprise," Bautista said, urging the board to enforce safeguards, provide staff training, revise crisis response plans and expand student and family support services for those affected by detention.
Bautista cited an Arizona oversight visit to an ICE processing facility in Mesa, saying the reviewers "documented findings of people being held far beyond the allowed time limits in overcrowded and inhumane conditions," with people "forced to sleep on concrete floors" and lacking adequate access to medical care and sanitary products.
The Clerk reminded speakers that, pursuant to the statute read into the record, board responses to public comment are limited to directing staff to investigate the matter, responding to criticism, or scheduling the matter for later consideration. The transcript records the public comment and the Clerk's instructions but does not show any immediate board direction or vote on Bautista's requests during the meeting.
