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'Hopefully they learned their lesson': Rural Georgia town bashes DHS's attempted takeover
The Deportation Machine Runs on Local SacrificeThe real power was federalThis was never a quarrel between neighbors. The institution with actual power was Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, which spent roughly $128 million on a warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia, for a planned 10,000-person deportation facility. That is not a stray bureaucratic proposal. It is the federal government trying to force a rural town to absorb the costs of its immigration regime.The town found the leverThe people with the most immediate leverage were local, not national. City manager Eric Taylor shut…
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