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00:03 Report / Misha Komadovsky 
00:20 Reverend Nate Taylor /Pastor
00:49 Rosie / Hanover resident
01:33 Sunny / Hanover resident
02:00 Karen / Hanover resident
02:19 Misha Komadovsky / DW Correspondent
02:36 Chris Madel / Former Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota

Script:
 
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It’s freezing here in Virginia. But residents in Hanover County are leaving their warm homes to head to to the local administration building…where officials are voting  on whether a  warehouse here could become an immigration detention facility.
 
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People Chanting
 
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Reverent Nate Taylor
Pastor
 
I have friends who are in my denomination, who are in the Minneapolis area, and I spoke with them earlier today. If this happens here, the entire area of Richmond is going to be affected. You don't build a center this large without a purpose and an intention behind it.
 
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For decades, Hanover has been home for Rosie and Jerry. Tonight, they’re here to say they don’t want an ICE facility in their backyard.
 
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Rosie and Jerry
Hanover locals
Cause we’re scared about what’s going on in the country. And this is only one example of it…
 
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This is conservative Hanover, where voters backed Donald Trump three times in a row. Yet there’s opposition to his stance on immigration. 
 
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Rosie and Jerry
Hanover locals
One of my neighbors actually is a Republican, and he said, we need to put our Virginia flags out. You know what? Sic Semper Tyrannis! So he's got his flag out, Republican! And all the other Republicans on the street are against Trump, everything he does, but this is outrageous.
 
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Sunny
Hanover local
I'm a liberal social worker and proud, and my brother is a Republican, but a Republican is different than bad words I want to say about what the leadership is. It's not Republican, it's, it's it's evil, it's power, it's narcissism, it's on and on. ((out: My brother is a humanist, and my brother is not… He just he is 100% clear about what matters, and we don't have any disagreement about that.))
 
((NARRATION))
Some residents oppose the immigration crackdown, while other opponents of this facility don’t see the economic benefit to the county.
 
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Karen
Local
It's not like you're going to get a lot of jobs out of it. It's not like other than the tax base for the county, it's not like it's going to provide employment, it's not going to beautify our community, it's not going to reclaim farmland, it's not going to be good for the environment. I mean, really, what's in it for for the people who live here?
 
((STAND UP))
Misha Komadovsky
US correspondent
 
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It's not just here in Hanover County, on Capitol Hill, miles away, some members of President Trump's own party have started openly questioning recent ICE operations.
 
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And some the President called losers for opposing him.
 
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Sen. Thom Tillis
(R) North Carolina

From 01:53

I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be Homeland Security Secretary and Senior Advisor to the president.
 
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DHS and ICE funding is now a flashpoint in the Senate, raising the risk of a government shutdown. Democrats are calling for these agencies to be separated from the funding bill. Republicans respond…
 
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Sen. Thom Tillis
(R) North Carolina

From 01:25 

People need to understand a lot of that funding was actually plussed up in the so-called big beautiful bill, which I voted against, and so that money's going to be there. The American people shouldn't be confused by reducing funding here. What they're talking about more are making sure that they have body cams, making sure they truly have escalation training. Don't put them on the front line until they do.
 
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A handful of Republicans in Congress are calling for the ouster of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. And in Minnesota, GOP governor candidate Chris Madel has dropped out of the race, blasting ICE and federal immigration policies.
 
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Chris Madel
Fmr Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate

From 00:50
 
I cannot support the National Republican stated retribution on the citizens of our state.

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People chanting
Back in Hanover, a win for locals against the new detention center - as local authorities formally opposed the DHS plan to build it.

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People chanting 

From 00:07 to 00:20

Instead, they are directed staff to explore legal options and alternatives. And as doubts grow among some Republican voters — and within the president’s own party on Capitol Hill — pushback like this may no longer be the exception.