Garrison Davis

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.

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.