Garrison Davis
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
suggesting, you know, implying that there are some places that are suitable for a detention center.
But there are a fair number of people in this community who are opposed to detention centers in general.
I mean, they see the violence that ICE is inflicting
in broad daylight on public streets.
And I think they're horrified and they don't want to be complicit in something like that, you know, coming to their community.
And I do think that along the way, I'm seeing more of a shift in the consciousness of,
or at least an openness to understanding the different influences that bring us to the same table.
It has been very cool.
And we can agree that, you know, we're not going to have 100% unity of ideas, but we can have a unity of action.
And, you know, we can save these debates on, you know, I mean, whether someone is illegal or not.
You know, we can continue to have them along the way as we are also identifying the very concrete ways that we can work together.
And I'm thinking of one, for example, I work pretty closely with some staffers for different members of Congress.
I mean, in terms of like uplifting, you know, human rights and civil rights abuses that we see in detention centers, because as part of my work,
I go inside detention centers, immigration detention centers in Georgia pretty frequently, also federal prisons.