{"id":1091,"date":"2026-05-15T19:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:39:57","slug":"georgia-town-sues-over-ice-plan-for-vast-immigration-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Georgia town sues over ICE plan for vast immigration detention center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials of Social Circle, population 5,000, file lawsuit over plan to turn warehouse into 10,000-capacity facility<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the small <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> town of Social Circle have filed a lawsuit against federal immigration agencies over plans for a huge immigration detention facility, arguing the project threatens to overburden local services and damage the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keker.com\/Templates\/media\/images\/%5B1%5D%20Complaint.pdf\">complaint<\/a>, filed on Wednesday in US district court for the middle district of Georgia, accuses US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a>) and the Department of Homeland Security (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/19\/donald-trump-immigration-crackdown\">DHS<\/a>) of moving ahead with the project without completing mandatory environmental assessments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/george-town-ice-detention-center-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials of Social Circle, population 5,000, file lawsuit over plan to turn warehouse into 10,000-capacity facility Officials in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}