Garrison Davis
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So you were talking about this assumption that the supremacy clause would mean that the federal government could
build a mega prison in a warehouse in your town without asking you if it could do that first.
Can you explain how people are able to use, like you said, various local tools to oppose this?
Like you said, it's a huge burden.
When I first read this story, I remember thinking about just the water and
sewage demands of housing 8,000 people would be crippling for the infrastructure in a lot of places.
So how are people opposing this?
Well, it's been really inspiring for me to see these local leaders who, again, many of whom have never been involved in activism or organizing before.
They've been very consistent in holding demonstrations,
on a weekly basis at the site of this facility and have garnered the attention of different media who have come and interviewed them.
So that's been one way that they've been trying to get their message out there.
I was just talking about the residents who are concerned from a sort of fiscal perspective and are concerned about their own property values and things like that.