Trump Fans Rage at Plans to Build Giant ICE Detention Centers in Their Towns

Trump Fans Rage at Plans to Build Giant ICE Detention Centers in Their Towns
NOT IN MY BACKYARD!
Communities that voted for Trump are furious about Amazon-style ICE mega-jails suddenly slated for construction in their backyards.
Tom Latchem, Lead Global Correspondent
Published Jan. 9 2026 1:46PM EST


Pro-Trump towns are in revolt over plans to create vast new ICE detention warehouses in their backyards.

The MAGA uproar is the first local test of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s drive to remake immigration detention by turning cavernous industrial buildings into Amazon-style hubs.

The scheme, detailed in internal ICE documents and public contracting plans and first reported by The Washington Post just before Christmas, envisions seven giant regional complexes, each designed for 5,000 to 10,000 detainees, plus 16 smaller feeder sites of up to 1,500 people, in a pipeline officials have likened to billionaire Jeff Bezos’ e-commerce network, but for humans.

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People at the meeting questioned why a small city 45 miles east of Atlanta, with just two or three police officers on duty most shifts, should be responsible for a complex almost twice its population. Officials warned that Social Circle’s water and sewer networks are already close to their permitted limits, and residents fretted that the likely warehouse site sits a short walk from the local elementary school.

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