Carroll Co. Site Being Considered As Immigration Shelter - July 11, 2014 - Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild says he and other residents learned about this through the media. He says the federal government has "blindsided" the county. "There is a concept, a process of inter-government coordination. And the fact we found about this through the media and through citizen phone calls who were extremely angry when they read about this in the media, I think demonstrates the process itself is broken," says Commissioner Rothschild.Commissioner Rothschild says he and his colleagues held an open meeting on Friday to discuss the issue. He says he's against using Carroll County as an importation center. "Importing the problem into the United States, and possibly, in the end, leaving local communities with the responsibility in the end of dealing with this is inappropriate. And as far as I'm concerned as a Commissioner, it's constitutes a federal commandeering of the resources of a local community, and the federal government is not allowed to do that," he says. Rothschild calls that "overreaching" on the part of the federal government.
Rothschild says he and his fellow Commissioners will be sending a loud message to the federal government that they don't want this type of facility in their community. "Until at such point as they engage us in a responsible manner, the answer isn't no. It's hell no," he says.
Those must be the Before pictures. Give them a week.