Spring in Arizona: baseball, sunshine & ICE detention centers
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Steve Schmidt is joined by Maritsa Georgiou, Save America Movement correspondent and host of the Grounded Podcast, live from Arizona, where the Save America Movement Operation Liberty is in full swing. Maritsa spoke with Reps. Adelita Grijalva and Sara Jacobs about the ICE prison camp being built in Surprise, AZ. Hear what they have to say.
She also spoke with local clergy and activists who are opposing the opening of an ICE detention center that was a former abandoned prison in Marana, AZ.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | And good afternoon, everybody. |
| 0:10.8 | It is Steve Schmidt with the Warning podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | And I'm thrilled today again to be joined by the veteran journalist Marita Giorgio. |
| 0:22.0 | She is in Marana, Arizona, in Southern Arizona, |
| 0:26.6 | at the site of another proposed future ICE detention facility |
| 0:34.3 | that many people call concentration camps. |
| 0:38.3 | Marita, how are you? |
| 0:41.3 | Hey, Steve, I'm doing well. It's hot out here, but we have been out. |
| 0:47.3 | We've been in Marana all morning. There was actually a Founders Day parade that we went to and talked to folks on the ground and just |
| 0:54.8 | before that this group this local group called Pima Resists Ice or Price they had just kind of a |
| 1:02.1 | little makeshift protest holding up signs standing out on the corner trying to raise awareness |
| 1:08.4 | about what is being proposed at this facility here behind me and |
| 1:12.5 | Marana. |
| 1:13.8 | So what is being proposed there yesterday you were in surprise Arizona we talked about the facility |
| 1:23.2 | there that clocks in about half the size of the facility that you reported from in social |
| 1:31.3 | circle Georgia about half a million square feet that's being proposed to be converted into a |
| 1:39.3 | prison facility for 1,500 people, though it could hold more. |
| 1:47.0 | And tell us now about this facility behind you. |
| 1:51.0 | What would its purpose be and what is it being proposed to do? |
| 1:56.0 | How many people would it hold there? |
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