The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly is no longer interested in converting a 1.2-million square-foot warehouse in Social Circle, recently purchased by the federal government, into an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center that had been planned to house as many as 10,000 people awaiting deportation and to employ as many as 2,500 people. The Social Circle facility, at the corner of Social Circle Parkway and East Hightower Trail, was planned to become part of a national network of detention facilities aimed at getting illegal immigrants out of the United States. But according to a statement released Thursday by the city government, Social Circle officials received notice Thursday from U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Jackson), whose 10th District seat includes Social Circle, that DHS “is no longer pursuing an ICE facility within the City of Social Circle.”