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LETTER: Concerns about the ICE facility
Dear Editor.
Yesterday, I drove past the warehouse that ICE just bought for 128 million dollars in Social Circle, GA. It is about ten miles from my house on the way to the city of Monroe where I have a store in an antique mall. Social Circle is a town of 5,000 people who didn’t want it, but got it anyway. ICE plans to hold 8,500 detainees there. I have no idea where they plan to put all their staff, there is no housing, nor is there the infrastructure or water. It is close by where they are building the Rivian truck plant that will be employing 7000 auto workers and numerous data centers which don’t need big staffs, but lots of cooling water.
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