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Miles Archer

(21,815 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 09:26 PM Friday

Georgia MAGAt is "supportive of the president" but doesn't want an ICE detention center housing 9000 in his town

The MAGA uproar is the first local test of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s drive to remake immigration detention by turning cavernous industrial buildings into Amazon-style hubs.

The scheme, detailed in internal ICE documents and public contracting plans and first reported by The Washington Post just before Christmas, envisions seven giant regional complexes, each designed for 5,000 to 10,000 detainees, plus 16 smaller feeder sites of up to 1,500 people, in a pipeline officials have likened to billionaire Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce network, but for humans.

However, that strategy hit the rocks this week, according to a new Post report. Inside a meeting room in Social Circle, Georgia, the newspaper reported that residents learned their town of roughly 5,000 people could be asked to absorb a warehouse that would hold up to 9,000 migrants.

“I’m supportive of the president, but I don’t particularly want this,” Victor Crawley, 57, told the Post, saying locals had only discovered the plan from the newspaper and had heard nothing from federal officials.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-rage-at-plans-to-build-giant-ice-detention-centers-in-their-towns/

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Georgia MAGAt is "supportive of the president" but doesn't want an ICE detention center housing 9000 in his town (Original Post) Miles Archer Friday OP
MAGA NIMBY sop Friday #1
Suck it up, you inbred fucks. This is what you voted for. hatrack Friday #2
Why does he care? it's not as if he gives a fuck about what is happening there or anywhere else. Solly Mack Friday #3
He does not want the jobs? The increase in property values? Norrrm Friday #4
Plow his house under and build it on his land Johonny Friday #5
They always ARE pro B.See Friday #6

Solly Mack

(96,369 posts)
3. Why does he care? it's not as if he gives a fuck about what is happening there or anywhere else.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 09:53 PM
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Johonny

(25,502 posts)
5. Plow his house under and build it on his land
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 10:25 PM
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He has no rights under Trump. Let him figure that out. Law of the jungle now, didn't he hear.

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