ICE wanted a detention centre - this town said no | BBC News

In Social Circle, Georgia, residents from across the political spectrum are opposing plans to turn a one‑million‑square‑foot warehouse into a 10,000‑person immigration detention centre. Twice the population of the town itself.

The sprawling industrial warehouse, which the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bought in February, is part of a $38.3bn (£29bn) plan to open up dozens of immigration detention centres across the US.

Those plans have faced fierce opposition, not just in Democratic communities, but in conservative towns like Social Circle, which overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump in the last election - including his campaign promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

Social Circle's wells are at the heart of residents' fight against ICE. They say the town's water system has had problems for decades and the ICE facility would require much more than the fragile system could provide.

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