Augusta Countyans likes them some Donald Trump, but when it comes to Trump’s signature initiative, putting brown-skinned people in detention centers, while folks here are all for putting brown-skinned people in detention centers, by gawd, just not here, OK?
“The Augusta County Board of Supervisors has made it clear that they do not support an ICE facility at this location,” County Administrator Tim Fitzgerald told The News Leader, adding that county leaders had made their position on the former Augusta Correctional Center facility known to former Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Which sheds new light on a couple of things that we learned this week about that Augusta Correctional Center property.
First, that Youngkin tried, on his final full day in office, to push through the sale of the property to a Manhattan-based LLC.
And second, that the Trump regime has been eyeing the Augusta Correctional Center property as a possible location for an ICE detention center, apparently for several months.
ICYMI
- Youngkin tried to rush sale of Augusta Correctional Center on his final day in office
- Trumpers looking at former Augusta Correctional Center as possible ICE detention site
Putting two and two together, it appears that Youngkin, whose name is being floated as a possible replacement for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, when she is eventually fired, or quits, whichever, was trying to pull a fast one.
And now we’re learning, the fast one was being pulled on 73 percent MAGA Augusta County, which unequivocally doesn’t want an ICE detention center in its backyard.
Good news for our local NIMBY MAGAs: the Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, is here to save the day for you.
Spanberger issued a memo this week reversing Youngkin’s directive to sell the property to the Manhattan folks, who, from all indications, were working with the regime to put an ICE facility here.
Which, no, county leaders are making it known, we don’t want your ICE facility – even if it wouldn’t be too close to most of us, since the former prison facility is located all the way out on the periphery of the Town of Craigsville, population: 923, 23 miles and a 37-minute drive west of Staunton.
The bulk of the local population here lives in the two cities and in their vicinity; Craigsville might as well be on the other side of the world.
Our lives wouldn’t be sullied by the brown-skinned people put in cages out to our west; the anti-ICE protests and TV cameras wouldn’t be our problem.
I mean, it would suck for folks out in Craigsville, who choose to live in a small town out in the middle of nowhere because some folks want a slower pace to life, the scenic views, a good, small, community elementary school, space.
That can’t be what our Board of Supervisors is doing here – turning down hundreds, maybe thousands, of decent-paying federal jobs, from that sweet pot of $170 billion in ICE money that the Trumpers got out of Congress last year, because they’re looking out for 923 people in a tiny town on the other side of the world.
NIMBYs.
You want people whose sin is being brown-skinned thrown into gulags, well, we’ve got a perfectly good gulag sitting out there in Craigsville.
Buck up, cowboys.
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