Kansas City Mayor reacts to DHS, ICE effort to convert factory into detention site
MSNBC·2026-02-08 16:46

"Why would they even pick a distribution facility to put humans in a jail?" Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas tells Rachel Maddow he initially dismissed reports that DHS and ICE planned to convert a former warehouse into a detention facility as "rumors" — until federal records and conversations with lawmakers suggested the plans were real. The City Council has since passed a five-year moratorium on non-city-run detention facilities. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. Same mission. New name. » ...

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