Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’
Source: US news | The Guardian · Bias: Center Left
Summary
Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouseOn a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the federal government recently purchased for $128m, with plans to use it for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan. Continue reading...
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