Another major front in the resistance has opened up over the last few months as ICE begins buying massive warehouses around the country to use as prison camps -- and local residents and leaders push back and in some cases stop them.

Unlike a lot of the burgeoning efforts that I write about here, this one has gotten some excellent national coverage, particularly from Rachel Maddow at MS NOW.

So I strongly encourage you to watch this segment from Maddow's Jan. 27 show where, among other things, she calls for more national media attention. (It worked!)



"Everywhere the Trump administration tries to put new camps -- new ICE facilities and ICE prison camps, they're being pushed back," she said. She then cited examples:

In Durant, Oklahoma, city leaders responded to ICE inquiries by passing an ordinance requiring city approval for any jail or detention center.

In New Jersey, the Morris County township council approved a resolution opposing an ICE detention facility inside a vacant half-million square foot warehouse in Roxbury.

In Hutchins, Texas, the mayor, city council, and county commissioner have all said they won't allow a facility in their town.

In New York State, officials in Republican-leaning Orange County responded to public outcry by vowing to block a proposed a "processing site" in Chester.

In Kansas City, Missouri, the city council responded to ICE plans there by passing a 5-year ban prohibiting non-municipal detention centers.

Maddow followed up this past Monday with another wonderful segment, which she wrote up here.

She explained that massive public pressure led a company to back off its plans to sell a warehouse in Ashland, Virginia, to ICE.



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