So ICE pays $130 million to Russian-born, Andrey Sharkov, for a warehouse worth $30 million. Nothing to see here. Social Circle community unites against plan to use warehouse for ICE detention atlpresscollective.com/2026/01/09/s...
— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) February 18, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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From Social Circle, Georgia:
Financial details surrounding the sale of a warehouse in Social Circle to the United States government have been made available.
According to a deed obtained by reporters, the U.S. government paid $128,555,500 to PNK S1, LLC to purchase a 235-acre lot at 1365 East Hightower Trail. The lot currently contains a warehouse that is expected to be used as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility. The facility could house 5,000-10,000 detainees, which could effectively triple the population of Social Circle.
In a PT-61 tax form – a tax form used for real-estate transfers — dated Feb. 3, the intended use of the property was listed as “commercial.”
As the new owners of the property, the federal government will not be subject to many of the conditions that private owners are, such as property taxes. At the site’s inception in 2022, Social Circle officials estimated it could bring close to $1 million in annual property tax revenue.
They are also not subject to any local or state zoning laws, meaning that the planned detention center facility does not have to adhere to laws set by the Social Circle City Council or Planning Commission.
The sale comes nearly three years after PNK purchased the property for $29,392,500 from Walton Leaf LLC in 2023, according to tax records. In 2024, the property was valued by the Walton County Tax Assessor’s Office at $3,294,000. However, that number jumped to $29,786,800 in 2025 as the warehouse neared completion.
This means that the federal government paid PNK nearly $100 million more than the 2025 assessment.
Talks of the PNK warehouse becoming an ICE detention center first began in December 2025 when The Washington Post reported that the federal government was eyeing the site in Social Circle. On Feb. 4, the City of Social Circle posted on its Facebook page that the federal government was in the process of purchasing the property.
In the post — which included information given to the city by the Office of 10th Congressional District Representative Mike Collins — the city said that the Department of Homeland Security had already begun evaluating the site.
However, city officials have remained insistent that they have not been directly contacted by the federal government despite numerous attempts to contact them.
On Feb. 8, the city said it was informed by “multiple sources” that the sale had been completed.
The sale has drawn criticism from both sides of the political aisle. Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff has released multiple statements, including one with Social Circle Mayor David Keener, expressing his opposition to the facility.
Collins added that while he supported ICE’s mission, he was also concerned that the facility would place a strain on the city’s infrastructure.
Local officials from Social Circle, Newton and Walton Counties have all opposed the implementation of the facility. Several other local activist groups and citizens have even held protests throughout recent weeks.
Despite this, it appears that the ICE facility will be implemented as planned. Detainees could start being housed at the facility as soon as April, according to the city’s Feb. 4 Facebook post.
Will Tennesseans soon be subject to the dictates of Trump's right-hand nazi, Stephen Miller? If TN House Speaker, Cameron Sexton has his way, that will be case after the current legislative session. Sustain Resistance! @philinvestigates.com @aclutn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) February 4, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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WARNING VIOLENT VIDEO: Federal Agents just shot and killed another person in Minneapolis. Before the ICE/Homeland Security/White House LIES start tumbling out...watch and judge for yourself. ENOUGH! STOP ICE/DHS VIOLENCE NOW!!!
— Ted McConnell (@tedmcc.bsky.social) January 24, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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Murderer’s reaction captured on his cell phone seconds after 3rd shot: “fucking bitch." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) January 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Google the video & see for yourself. This is not law enforcement. This is murder. Sickening.
— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Why TF is anyone shopping at Home GD Depot anymore. Boycott
— DC Shari G 🦅 (@dcsharig.bsky.social) October 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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There is no hell hot enough to properly punish Felon47 and his ICE army of thugs. Story from TPR:
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.
The mother brought her two children to the immigration court on May 29 expecting to continue to make a case for asylum after fleeing Honduras because of threats of violence. But like many other immigrants across the country, they were surprised to see their case quickly dismissed as ICE agents waited for them to step out of the courthouse into the hallway.
"There were men waiting for them in civilian clothing. The [ICE agents] detained the family for many hours, and it was a terrifying time for the two children and their mother," said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School.
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
The family was then transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they have been detained for several weeks.
The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Antonio by the Immigrant Rights Clinic and The Texas Civil Rights Project. . .
Trump hopes his illegal war on Iran will shift attention away from his War on America, which is being waged by his sicko sycophants in Congress, who are trying to have 15 million people lose their health insurance, more children to go hungry, thousands of hospitals and nursing homes to close, $3.1 trillion added to our grandchildren’s national debt payout, and millionaires and billionaires to be granted more massive tax cuts.
Another element of Trump’s War on America is being waged by the incompetent and dangerous criminal gangs of ICE that he has unleashed on brown and black immigrant communities as workers, mothers and fathers, students, and infants are rounded up for deportation.
This from ABC News:
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn't know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month.
When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.
His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. . .
