Opponents to a proposed ICE detention facility proposed for a vacant warehouse on McEver Road is growing based on the turnout at Monday night’s Oakwood City Council meeting. The facility is one of several planned around the country based on reports that surfaced recently. Is an ICE detention facility coming to Flowery Branch?
Opponents to the facility packed the meeting room at Oakwood City Hall, making it clear that the facility, which would house up to 1,500 people, is not wanted in Hall County.
City officials took no action, one way or another, on the matter but repeated what they said in a statement issued a few days ago – that they’ve had no contact from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about any plans to open such a facility here. Oakwood responds to possible ICE detention facility in city
Though the warehouse in question has a Flowery Branch address it is actually inside the Oakwood City Limits.
Opposition is growing in other parts of the country to planned ICE detention facilities as well. GOP senator opposes ICE detention facility in his state
And in Social Circle, as the AJC reported earlier this week, the DHS has already purchased a place in that Georgia town for a detention center that could open as soon as April, despite citizen and city hall opposition to it.