Garrison Davis

And it's about an hour drive outside of Atlanta.

And in December of 2025, a news article was published in the Washington Post announcing the list of the 20 cities where these warehouses would be popping up.

And it was that article that...

that told the residents of Social Circle and the elected officials of Social Circle for the first time that this ICE megaprison was coming to their community.

There was no notice to the city by ICE or anyone in the federal government at all.

Certainly no opportunity to respond, no opportunity for public input.

Yeah.

So they felt really blindsided.

Yeah.

And I'm not from this community.

And, you know, I've met many of these people only for the first time, you know, within the last couple of months.

But I think it would not be so far-fetched to say that some of these people feel, you know, especially the ones who identify as Republicans or as, you know, conservatives, I think they feel really betrayed by, you know, by their government, by their party.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so, you know, a lot of these people, I mean, I've just described the demographic.

I think many of them have never been involved in organizing of any kind before.

Some of them have, I think, but I think due to, you know, their life circumstances just might not have found themselves in a place where they've needed to organize for anything.

So a bunch of these residents got together and have been holding, you know, in-person kind of town hall community meetings.

And they held one in January where they were about, you know, I think 40 to 50 people together.

in the room and they wanted to get together and, you know, just have a public discourse about what could be done.