Rachel Maddow

But basically the whole community turned up on this icy, cold, snowy, dangerous night to tell the board of supervisors there exactly what they thought.

There were so many people there in the cold and the snow that once the room was full, people queued up outside despite the weather.

They knew they wouldn't get in, they were told they wouldn't get in, they said they weren't leaving, they were staying, they had to say their piece, and then this happened.

We're not leaving.

saying, we're not leaving.

We're not leaving.

You hear the cheers that go up when they hear the result of what happened inside.

The Board of Supervisors in deep, deep red, Hanover County, Virginia, said no.

That night, with all those people packing the meeting, with all those people outside, they said, we do not want a Trump prison camp here.

In the statement that the board put out saying that they oppose

This prison camp being cited in their county, they called on their state representatives in state government, they called on their federal delegation in Congress to please help them, to please make this not happen, to tell ICE and to tell the Trump administration that they were not going to have one of these prison camps in their county.

So that was Wednesday night.

Then, less than 48 hours later, on Friday, this past Friday,

The Canadian billionaire, the guy who owns that half million square foot warehouse in Ashland in Hanover County, Virginia, his company put out a very simple one-line statement.

It says, quote, the transaction to sell our industrial building in Ashland, Virginia will not be proceeding.

Will not be proceeding.

Done.

Let's go to another red part of the country.

Let's go to Utah.

We covered over the past couple of weeks local organizing in Utah to stop yet another huge warehouse from being bought by the Trump administration and turned into a huge immigrant prison camp there.