Garrison Davis

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, thanks for joining us.

And we are gathered here today to talk about the new proposals that DHS has to detain people in literal warehouses, right?

If people aren't familiar, maybe you could start out by explaining what those proposals are and how they specifically relate to the areas where you're organizing in Atlanta.

Sure, so around December of 2025, a journalist leaked a list of about 20 different cities across the country where ICE was intending to open new detention facilities in warehouses specifically.

And this list contained the names of the cities,

and the expected or projected occupancy of each of these facilities.

And so I live here in Atlanta, Georgia, and there were two cities on that list with warehouses contemplated.

One is located in the city of Flowery Branch, where the warehouse there is intended to detain up to 1,500 people.

And the other is in the city of Social Circle, Georgia, where ICE intends to use a warehouse that is over 1 million square feet to detain about 8,500 people.

That's vast.

Like...

I think that this would dwarf the capacity of any, like, I'm trying to think if there are maybe prisons that are bigger than that.

I don't know.

But like in immigration terms, I don't think there is anything.

Yeah, I mean, you know, so for the last four years or so, I've worked with I've worked on various different shutdown ice campaigns here in Georgia.

And for the last four years, I've been working with the campaign to shut down the Folkestone Ice Processing Center, which is a nice facility in South Georgia, pretty close to Florida.

But it's about a five hour drive from Atlanta.

And that ended up expanding last summer.

But the number of beds at that facility was projected to be around 3,000.