Outrage is mounting in Georgia and across the United States as the federal government moves to dramatically expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention capacity as part of an escalating war on immigrants. In rural Social Circle, Georgia, local officials revealed that ICE intends to purchase a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse and convert it into a massive detention complex capable of holding up to 10,000 people, a scale of incarceration not seen in the United States since the mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
I live in GA, and this has been talked about quite a bit on NPR and other radio stations. It’s important to know that Social Circle might as well be called MAGAville. They aren’t pissed about people being detained. Quite the opposite. The strange hypocrisy is that one of the core tenets of being a conservative is also being a NIMBY. They don’t want their town to change (especially not by adding a ton of non-detainee residents).