ICE bought a warehouse in Social Circle, Ga. The city, which voted 73%for Trump, wishes it hadn't

ICE bought a warehouse in Social Circle, Ga. The city, which voted 73%for Trump, wishes it hadn't

The warehouse 50 miles east of Atlanta near Interstate 20 is not much to look at.  It’s really just a box: an over 1-million-square-foot, gray box dotted with semi-trailer loading docks. It’s built to be a distribution center. Communities across the country have been shocked to learn that the Department of Homeland Security wants to […] The post ICE bought a warehouse in Social Circle, Ga. The city, which voted 73%for Trump, wishes it hadn’t app…

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The local news cycle in 2026 has been dominated by the once-rumored, but now-confirmed ICE detention center facility coming to Social Circle.

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The federal government is purchasing a warehouse in Social Circle to be used as an ICE detention facility, and while the transformation of the warehouse to house humans is logistically possible, it could put a strain on the city's water and wastewater management infrastructure. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.