Garrison Davis

And we'll meet with people and learn about the conditions that they're facing.

And we'll, you know, fight for them to get released and also share what I learned from them with, you know, different members of Congress.

I mean, to be frank, you know, I've never initiated correspondence with a Republican, but I think I kind of just assumed that they wouldn't want to... Yeah, yeah.

That I wouldn't get anywhere with them or that they wouldn't talk to me.

But what's been...

effective in working with this coalition of residents is some of these people, I mean, yeah, like they, I, you know, they've been card carrying Republicans for a long time and feel that they, you know, can wield influence over, you know, certain Republican elected officials and, and one of them, you know, I mean, well, I, I don't know how many of them, but, um, but a number of these local residents, um,

have gotten republican you know mike collins to come out against this ice facility yeah that's especially right now in the republican party and like uh that that could be very difficult for them to do a sort of once not hugely sympathetic to republican politicians and i would still like to see them get better like this we want people to get better that's the whole thing and like i think

For these people whose politics may not be the same as ours, sharing the space, sharing the movement, sharing the struggle, I hope it makes people better.

I hope being exposed to people who are not of the same background as you, be it class-wise, race-wise, politics-wise, whatever, makes people realize that

Things are not quite how they're presented to them on the television or in the media they consume.

Totally.

So I'm sure that's, yeah, I hope that is positive.

What can local government do or even elected officials do, given that, elected officials on a federal level do, given that ICE just appears to be operating without a great deal of oversight right now?

Yeah, I mean, with each of these warehouses, there are different circumstances around each of them.

I've been really inspired, honestly, by the folks in Maryland who are dealing with a warehouse, maybe multiple warehouses, I'm not sure.

Yeah, I can't remember.

where, you know, at both the local and the state level, they have really pushed for legislation that would effectively, yeah, I mean, prevent these warehouses from existing at all.

It is a different set of facts than what we're working with here in Georgia because there's more involvement by private actors.

And so the government, you know, the local government can regulate them more.

But Maryland is certainly not the only place where...