Rachel Maddow

When they got no response, the village of Chester wrote to the administration again.

This time they sent a 59-page letter spelling out why it was a terrible idea for the village of Chester, New York, to get a prison camp like this.

Since then, bipartisan groups of New York lawmakers have written letters to oppose any such prison camp being built there.

The county executive is a Republican.

He says he hasn't talked to a single elected official in the whole state.

No Democrat, no Republican who is in favor of this thing.

And of course, the opposition is coming from the people, too.

After the news broke, so many people showed up to the next village meeting that, look, this was the overflow outside.

There weren't nearly enough chairs.

There almost wasn't enough space in the town.

There have been protests almost every week since in Chester and in the surrounding areas outside in the frigid cold in this cold winter.

The local congressman from Chester stood up at one of those protests and spoke for his constituents.

Congressman Pat Ryan said ICE should, quote, stay the F out of the Hudson Valley.

He didn't say F. Congressman Ryan started a petition against the prison.

In less than a month, it got more than 20,000 signatures.

Again, this is a town of 4,000 people.

It's been one big, loud, unified no from Chester, New York.

We do not want your Trump prison camp in our little village.

For now, it seems like the people of Chester might have won this fight.

A little over a week ago, an ICE spokesperson said the Trump administration officially had bought that old Pep Boys warehouse in Chester.