Neighbors Want Safe Communities

Neighbors want safe communities

There’s been no more concrete news about any federal plans for a large immigration detention center in Hammond, but there have been reports that the small town of Social Circle, Georgia, is opposed to the possible building of a center…

Social Circle community unites against ICE detention facility plan

The Folkston ICE Processing Center in Charlton County, Georgia (Nolan Huber) On Tuesday evening, Social Circle residents and city officials crowded into the Standridge Community Center to seek answers and voice unanimous opposition to a secret federal plan that would convert their exurban quiet town into a national deportation hub.  City officials told community members they’d first learned of the proposal in a story the Washington Post ran on C…