The U.S. Senate introduced a bill that would require local approval of immigration detention facilities before they’re built.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff from Georgia is a cosponsor of the bill, called the “Respect for Local Communities Act.”
This year, the Department of Homeland Security spent nearly $200 million on warehouses in Georgia to convert them into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, one in Social Circle, about an hour east of Atlanta, and one in Oakwood, about an hour northeast of Atlanta.
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