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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta

Georgia town’s novel strategy to fight ICE jail plan impresses legal experts

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A group of canvassers opposed to the Ice detention facility proposal in Social Circle, Georgia. Photograph: Dustin Chambers/The Guardian

A small Georgia town’s federal lawsuit opposing the Trump administration’s plans to turn a warehouse into one of the largest immigration detention centers in the US has the potential to create a wide impact as it uses novel legal arguments, experts said.

The town of Social Circle’s complaint goes further than other recently filed lawsuits around the same issues, which assert that the US federal government has not carried out environmental impact assessments for proposed detention centers, as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (Nepa).

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