Garrison Davis

But they're agreements between the federal government and the county, the local government, where the local government says, yes, you can use our land or our facilities, but

And in exchange, you pay us, I mean, in the case of Folkestone, it's a comparably measly amount.

It's only $200,000 per year.

Jesus, not much, yeah.

Even though the federal government is giving, I mean, $50 million a year to insert your favorite private prison corporation here, you know, whether it's CoreCivic or GeoGroup.

Yeah, I mean, your favorite.

There are only two, really.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not much of a choice.

Yeah, yeah.

And so typically, like we see this sort of like co-opting and manipulation of the local community and the local government by the federal government, you know, coercing them economically to, you know, to take on these detention centers or else.

But here, I mean, like I said, Social Circle is doing fine.

They're not starved for economic investment.

And ICE didn't, you know, consult them at all.

It really just, like, you know, in the dead of night, just bought this warehouse from a private company and pushed this deal through.

So those are some aspects that I think might throw, you know, some of us who might have been involved in these similar fights before, like, for a loop a little bit because...

Yeah, there's this assumption, I think, by some of the local officials that the supremacy clause governs here and the federal government can do whatever it wants.

So there's no point in us trying to use our local zoning ordinances or what have you to try to put a stop to this because there's nothing that we can do.

Right.

Is at least what, you know, some people might be saying.