Rachel Maddow

Really, really happy to have you here.

All right, I have some stuff to show you guys.

Less than two weeks ago, a week ago Wednesday, so that was January 21st, the Department of Homeland Security wrote to Hanover County, Virginia.

Hanover County, Virginia is just outside Richmond, Virginia.

It's Republican territory.

Trump beat Kamala Harris in Hanover County by 26 points, just for context in terms of the local politics there.

But on the 21st of January,

Homeland Security sends a letter to Hanover County saying, we are going to build a Trump prison camp in Hanover County, specifically in Ashland, Virginia.

We, Homeland Security, are going to build an ICE prison camp

Here, just wanted to let you know, that letter was sent to the county Wednesday, a week and a half ago.

People locally learn about that two days later, last Friday, with reports like this in the local press.

The Trump administration wants to build one of their camps, wants to build a prison camp for immigrants in a Hanover County warehouse.

Specifically, they want to build it out on the site of a former cattle farm in Hanover County.

In total, it's about 15 miles north of Richmond.

Right now, there is a half million square foot warehouse on that site that ICE wants to use to convert into a prison camp.

That warehouse was built by a company owned by a Canadian billionaire, a guy based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

His company is apparently going to sell that warehouse in Virginia to ICE so ICE can build a prison camp there.

So that news comes to the county on Wednesday.

The news gets out locally that this is happening two days later on Friday.

Then over that weekend...