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Kansas City Mayor reacts to DHS, ICE effort to convert factory into detention site
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February 8, 2026
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1:06Now Playing"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.
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