Garrison Davis

Otherwise it's like sparkling authoritarianism or whatever, but like, unless you're looking for like a gate with our Beck marked fry on it or whatever, like, like these are concentration camps like that.

That is what this is.

It was really interesting in 2023, we had outdoor detention under the Biden administration.

And like, we didn't really have much coverage from the US media when we were participating in mutual aid there.

But we'd had a lot from non-US media, like folks from Japan and Singapore and Italy.

And they'd just come and be like, oh yeah, this is a concentration camp.

And then they'd write the story and be like, oh, these are concentration camps.

And like, I would never have got that past an editor in LA or New York.

To them, it seems so self-evident.

Now we're just doing it on an even bigger scale, I guess.

It's terrible.

It's shit.

So I know you've been organizing in social circles specifically, right?

Or part of an organizing group, I should say, that's been opposing this detention center.

So I think it'd be really instructive to people because these are going to be all over the country and this won't be the only expansion of immigration detention we see in the next few years, I imagine, given the massive budget and the priorities of the administration.

Can you explain a little bit about how that campaign got started and then the nuts and bolts of how this is being opposed?

Yeah, so before I get into that, I think providing some context on who the social circle community is would be instructive.

So it's a pretty small, it's a very small city.

It's got a population of about 5,000 people.

Overwhelmingly Republican, overwhelmingly white, and pretty wealthy.