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Site of a planned ICE detention center near Social Circle, Georgia

Georgia Town Sues Trump Administration Over Massive ICE Detention Center Plan

May 14, 2026 Social Circle, Georgia Georgia Recorder Local Lawsuit
Social Circle — a town of about 5,000 people roughly 45 miles east of Atlanta — filed suit Wednesday against ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and the acting ICE director over plans to build a large immigration detention center near the town. The complaint is the latest in a string of local legal challenges to the administration’s rapid detention expansion, brought by jurisdictions objecting to facilities planned without local input.