Protesters gather in front of Delaney Hall, a recently reopened immigration detention center owned by Geo Group, in Newark on May 7. (Seth Wenig/AP) By Douglas MacMillan and Hannah Natanson

The federal government has paused a plan to issue a $47 million contract for an expanded immigrant detention center in Georgia amid a review of the contract by the U.S. DOGE Service, according to a local official briefed on the matter and documents obtained by The Washington Post.

An official from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed local officials in Charlton County, Georgia, on Wednesday that the agency was unable to move forward with a plan to reopen a former prison as an immigrant detention facility, County Administrator Glenn Hull said in an interview. The county has scrapped

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