Grant Blankenship
Reporter for Georgia Public Broadcasting who filed the on-the-ground story about the Department of Homeland Security's planned detention warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 5min
A town's warehouse will become an ICE detention center. The town says it wasn't asked
Grant Blankenship, a Georgia Public Broadcasting reporter who covered the on-the-ground story, walks through DHS plans to convert a million-square-foot warehouse into an immigration detention center. He describes the surprise sale, local officials saying they were not consulted, worries about water and infrastructure, and residents’ concerns about fences, population spikes, and property values.
