Rachel Maddow

The Canadians get going on this.

The head of the Green Party in British Columbia announces a boycott of that billionaire, of all the companies owned or operated by that Canadian billionaire, if he goes through with selling this warehouse to become an ICE prison camp in Virginia.

That happens over the weekend.

Then on Monday, the union that represents workers at one of his grocery stores, they say, basically, yeah, we're with her.

You better not sell that warehouse for a Trump prison camp for ICE.

By the way, we're your workers at your grocery store.

You better listen to us.

The day after that, Tuesday, the billionaire's company puts out a kind of milquetoast, everybody calm down statement that basically just says, you know, we understand that this is something people feel really strongly about.

Thanks for your concern.

But basically the upshot of it is we're still moving ahead with this thing.

That's Tuesday.

Following day, Wednesday, a big outdoor advertising company that does tons of business with that billionaire's company, advertising company called Point Blank, they send the billionaire a letter saying, hey, you know, if you help ICE build a freaking prison camp in America, in Virginia, we're never doing any business with any of your companies ever again.

Well, that night, back in Virginia, back in Hanover County, there's a Board of Supervisors meeting.

When they first got those local news reports that this prison camp was coming to town, that ICE wanted to build a prison camp there, those local news reports had mentioned that the local Board of Supervisors was, quote, "...set to consider the proposal and potential next steps at its next regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, January 28th, weather permitting."

Well, as of Wednesday, January 28th, weather was not permitting.

It was absolutely freezing, snow everywhere, the roads were completely covered in ice.

Nevertheless, the local Board of Supervisors in Hanover County, Virginia, met that night, Wednesday, and the place was absolutely packed with locals.

The public comment period at the Board of Supervisors meeting went on and on and on for hours.

And nobody was allowed to speak at that public comment period unless they were from Hanover County.

And again, this is a Trump plus 26 county.