We’ve joined immigrants’ rights groups in sounding the alarm about Department of Homeland Security plans to open a massive immigration detention center in the City of Social Circle.
DHS plans to convert a warehouse into a facility that could cage up to 8,500 people as early as April.
“If DHS is allowed to proceed with opening the Social Circle facility, it will cement Georgia’s role as a key node in the web of the detention and deportation machine that has been terrorizing families and communities across the country,” says a press release written by Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta and the National Immigration Project.
Advocates and communities in Georgia are organizing to oppose detention expansion. The ACLU of Georgia rejects policies that treat people as disposable and joins others in demanding an end to a cruel and broken immigration system. This plan would make Social Circle home to one of the largest immigration prisons in the country. And it’s moving forward without transparency, despite clear opposition from city officials and residents.
Read the full press release here.
