Activists place flowers and candles in the front gate of Krome Service Processing Center during the “Vigil for the Voiceless” in Miami in May. (Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

By Douglas MacMillan

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving forward with a plan to build the nation’s largest immigrant detention facility in southeast Georgia, according to Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia), who represents the state’s 1st Congressional District.

ICE has issued a modification to its contract with private prison firm Geo Group Inc. that will combine the company’s Folkston detention center, an active facility that can hold up to 1,100 detainees, with D. Ray James, an idle former prison located on an adjacent property that can hold around 1,870 detainees, Carter said in a

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