Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Georgia town of 5,000 vows to fight ICE plan to warehouse 9,000 detainees 1 of 2 SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. – The latest movement to resist President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda didn’t announce itself with protest signs, chanted slogans or bullhorns. It arose inside a dimly lit assembly room in this Republican stronghold about 45 miles east of Atlanta, where residents voiced their anger over a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plan to convert a local warehouse into one of the nation’s largest immigrant detention centers. “I’m supportive of the president, but I don’t particularly want this,” Victor Crawley, 57, said in an interview after the town hall discussion. The city learned about the plans from a recent report in The Washington Post but has heard nothing from federal officials. by three percentage points in 2024, residents have packed municipal meetings and staged outdoor protests, hoping to persuade elected leaders to take a stand against what they see as a federal incursion into their community. In Jefferson, Georgia, part of a county Trump won by 55 points, Mayor Dawn Maddox says she wouldn’t support
