"Acting ICE director Todd Lyons once put it, in brutally dystopian fashion, that his goal for ICE's revamped detention and deportation system to be "[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings." That kind of logistical efficiency is easier said than done, however, because those human beings have been placed in nea"
Social Circle, Georgia, voted overwhelmingly for Trump's deportation agenda but reversed course when DHS purchased a 1.2 million square foot warehouse to house 10,000 detainees without local consultation. City officials argue the facility's operational plan is fundamentally flawed and impossible to execute. The primary concern involves the massive water requirements and wastewater generation the facility would produce, which would overwhelm the city's infrastructure systems. The situation exemplifies how communities support harsh immigration enforcement policies abstractly but resist their concrete implementation locally. ICE's broader detention system overhaul aims for logistical efficiency comparable to Amazon Prime operations, but practical infrastructure limitations in Social Circle reveal significant obstacles to this vision.
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