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Companies argue against proposal not to house separated kids
Travis Loller, Associated Press
Updated 6:47 pm CST, Tuesday, January 8, 2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An activist shareholder wants to pre-emptively block the nation's two largest private detention companies from housing immigrant children separated from their parents, but the companies don't want the proposal to go to a vote.
Tennessee-based CoreCivic and Florida-based GEO Group both say they have no intention of housing separated immigrant children or their parents, but the companies are fighting an attempt to require them to adopt policies to that effect.
Alex Friedmann, associate director of the Human Rights Defense Center, has submitted shareholder resolutions on the subject for a vote at the companies' annual meetings. Both companies have asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to exclude the resolutions from shareholders packets sent ahead of their annual meetings, meaning there would be no vote.
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But in an interview Tuesday, Friedmann said that even though the policy of family separation is "over for the moment, we have somebody in the Oval Office who changes his mind on a regular basis." He added that family separations still happen under certain circumstances.
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Companies-argue-against-proposal-not-to-house-13518312.php
