Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’

Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse On 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...

By Timothy Pratt in Social Circle, Georgia