“The town that said 'no' to ICE | BBC News” — what this page in the network covers. In Social Circle, Georgia, residents from across the political spectrum are opposing plans to turn a one‑million‑square‑foot warehouse into a 10,000‑person immigration detention centre. Twice the population of the town itself.
The sprawling industrial warehouse, which the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bought in February, is part of a $38.3bn (£29bn) plan to open up dozens of immigration detention centres across the US. Those plans have faced fierce opposition, not just in Democra The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.