{"id":66630,"date":"2026-02-18T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/conservative-georgia-town-pushes-back-against-ice-detention-center-we-are-americans-after-all\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:57:05","slug":"conservative-georgia-town-pushes-back-against-ice-detention-center-we-are-americans-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/conservative-georgia-town-pushes-back-against-ice-detention-center-we-are-americans-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: \u2018We are Americans after all\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse<\/p>\n<p>On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked me to turn on the water,\u201d he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the federal government recently purchased for $128m, with plans to use it for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s mass deportation plan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/18\/ice-detention-center-warehouse-georgia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. \u201cThey asked me to turn on the water,\u201d he said &#8230; <a title=\"Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: \u2018We are Americans after all\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/conservative-georgia-town-pushes-back-against-ice-detention-center-we-are-americans-after-all\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: \u2018We are Americans after all\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}