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Timothy Pratt in Social Circle, Georgia

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

a person talks to a small crowd of people on a street corner
Gareth Fenley speaks to a group of canvassers before walking around downtown Social Circle to inform residents about the ICE holding facility in Georgia on 12 February. Photograph: Dustin Chambers/The Guardian

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.

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