Fighting ICE’s Warehouse Prisons
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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James is joined by Sam Hamilton to discuss how people in Social Circle, GA are organizing against an 8,000 person detention facility that ICE is planning to build in a warehouse in their community.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | CallZone Media. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, friends, and welcome to the show. |
| 0:13.0 | It's me, James, today, and I'm very lucky to be joined by Sam Hamilton, who is the senior litigation staff attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice |
| 0:21.8 | Atlanta. |
| 0:22.8 | Hi, Sam. |
| 0:23.8 | Hi, James. |
| 0:24.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:25.8 | Yeah, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:27.2 | And we are gathered here today to talk about the new proposals that DHS has to detain |
| 0:37.4 | people in literal warehouses, right? |
| 0:41.3 | If people aren't familiar, maybe you could start out by explaining what those proposals |
| 0:46.8 | are and how they specifically relate to the areas where you're organizing in Atlanta. |
| 0:51.2 | Sure. So around December of 2025, a journalist leaked a list of about 20 different |
| 1:01.5 | cities across the country where ICE was intending to open new detention facilities in warehouses |
| 1:10.4 | specifically. |
| 1:12.4 | And this list contained the names of the cities |
| 1:15.7 | and the expected or projected occupancy of each of these facilities. |
| 1:23.5 | And so I live here in Atlanta, Georgia, |
| 1:26.9 | and there were two cities on that list with warehouses contemplated. |
| 1:34.6 | One is located in the city of Flowery Branch, where the warehouse there is intended to detain up to 1,500 people. |
| 1:45.2 | And the other is in the city of Social Circle, Georgia, |
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