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Feds appear to axe plans for immigration detention megacenter in Georgia town | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Updated 6/21/2026, 7:20:31 PMCluster Impact 3.82
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GDELTGeorgia

Feds appear to axe plans for immigration detention megacenter in Georgia town | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Goldstein: 3.5Tone: -3.0

After months of tension between the city of Social Circle, Georgia, and the federal government, the city announced in a press release Thursday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will abandon its plan to convert an industrial warehouse into a 10,000-bed immigration detention center in the rural community. The department's apparent decision to discontinue the development comes a month after the city of Social Circle, which is about an hour east of Atlanta, filed a lawsuit against DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin and then-acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. According to the complaint, lawyers representing Social Circle called on a federal court in Georgia to halt further action on the detention center construction, citing city infrastructure concerns. The city attributed the information about the stalled project to "multiple sources within DHS," which was then confirmed by Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins in their Thursday press release. An unnamed spokesperson for DHS wrote in a statement to the Georgia Recorder that the agency is "moving swiftly to utilize EXISTING detention space with our state and country partners." The department did not comment on Social Circle or the apparent cancellation of the federal project. The warehouse was among several purchased by the federal government as part of the Trump administration's plans to drastically scale up deportations. With a 10,000-detainee capacity and about 5,000 staff, lawyers said the project would triple the city's population. The project gained national attention partially because 70% of voters in deep-red Walton County, where Social Circle is located, cast a ballot for President Donald Trump in 2024. The New York Times reported Thursday that the Trump administration has decided to drop its plans to use warehouses as immigration detention centers and will either sell them or give them to other federal agencies. In its statement, the city of Social Circle thanked Collins and Democratic U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who all advocated on the city's behalf about their concerns. Collins had been a key mediator between city leaders and the federal government since February, according to the city's statement. A proponent of hardline immigration policies, Collins supported the federal government's plan early on, but also sympathized with city leaders' infrastructure concerns. Collins did not immediately respond to the Recorder's request for comment. At a primary election debate in April, Collins reiterated that the town does not have the resources to support the project. Since then, he has won a June runoff election to become the Republican nominee for this year's U.S. Senate race and will face Democratic incumbent Ossoff in the November general election. In March, Warnock visited Social Circle to examine the city's aging water and sewage infrastructure. He and Ossoff both heavily criticized the federal agency for its handling of the community's concerns and backed a bill that would prevent the department from taking similar steps in other cities. Ossoff did not immediately respond to the Recorder's request for comment. "I was proud to elevate the concerns of the people of Social Circle and Oakwood over the past four months to pressure the administration to backtrack on their dangerous plans," a statement attributed to Warnock said. "The people of Social Circle and Oakwood didn't vote for me, but I still fought for them because I was elected to serve all Georgians." For Oakwood, another Georgia town where the federal government hoped to develop a detention center, the future is more unclear. Oakwood City Manager B.R. White told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday that town leadership has not yet heard from DHS about whether the project in Hall County will continue. During the project, Social Circle leaders also expressed distress over the loss of property tax revenue. The federal government is not required to pay state or local property taxes. With the project cancelled, the DHS-owned warehouse, which the federal government purchased for about $128 million in February, may now go up for sale. "Based on the information provided to the city, it is our understanding that the property could be sold if there are no other federal agencies that express interest in the property," the city wrote in its statement. "The city is hopeful that the property will ultimately return to the local tax base and once again contribute to the economic vitality and long-term success of the Social Circle community." Read more at GeorgiaRecorder.com.

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GDELTMissouri

Times Opinion: Missouri’s costly cut to young readers | Chattanooga Times Free Press

Goldstein: 3.4Tone: 0.3

When it comes to preparing young children for successful lives, few factors weigh more heavily than early reading. A Harvard Graduate School of Education study found that reading to children starting very early — even as babies — gives them measurable advantages later. The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that "reading together with infants and young children ... lays the groundwork for school readiness and long-term benefits throughout life." Providing kids with that early benefit is surely even more crucial in a state like Missouri, with its chronically underfunded and underperforming education system. Yet, in the latest stark illustration of the skewed priorities of our state's leaders, Missouri's new budget guts a nationally lauded, modestly priced book-gifting program for young kids to achieve $4 million in savings — inconsequential in the state's budget. Gov. Mike Kehoe and the legislature can and must undo this shortsighted mistake. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a renowned program that mails one free age-appropriate book a month to children from birth to age 5. Operating in all 50 states (as well as overseas), it is funded in part by the Dollywood Foundation, along with public and private support. Missouri has had a special relationship with the program since 2024, when it became the first state to fully fund it. Parton, the country music superstar, joined then-Gov. Mike Parson in Kansas City that year in a celebration recognizing the milestone. Parson declared it "Imagination Library of Missouri" Day and praised both Parton and the program for bringing literacy to kids. The following year, Missouri's state-funded program handed out 1.9 million books — significantly more than the 1.6 million that its much larger neighbor Illinois handed out that year. That was then. In state budget negotiations this year, Gov. Kehoe, scraping for savings amid predictions of budgetary shortfalls, asked the legislature to nix $4 million of the $6 million requested for the program. That the cut wasn't widely reported isn't surprising; $4 million out of a total budget of more than $50 billion is little more than a rounding error. Press coverage of the budget has focused largely on bigger issues — like the $190 million it shorts the state's education foundation formula. Missouri's weak education system is all the more reason to help kids get a head start with this low-cost book program. While the $4 million cut barely registers within the state budget, the impact on the ground is literally existential to the program. There were almost 170,000 Missouri kids enrolled as of the end of March. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says it won't enroll additional kids in the program after July 1. Those already enrolled will continue to receive books until the money runs out. Then the books — the reading — will stop. As word has gotten out, the cut has seen a surge of local, state and even national media coverage. Had that happened during last month's budget negotiations, we're guessing it never would have ended up on the chopping block. But again, it's not a level of money that either policymakers, lobbyists or journalists are focused on when billions of dollars are being bandied about. Sometimes, dollar amounts don't begin to define the value of something. "They can't wait to go to the mailbox and get that little book," Parton told her Kansas City audience two years ago, "and they're going to take it in the house and they're going to make somebody read to them." Missouri's constitution doesn't allow the governor to unilaterally restore funding that wasn't appropriated by the legislature. But he can seek a supplemental appropriation to restore the $4 million and the legislature can grant it. And that's what should happen, as soon as possible.

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