Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said a possible Kansas City ICE detention center is "un-American" in an interview with CNN yesterday.
The big picture: The mayor warned against an increasing ICE presence, saying he's opposed to a new facility and worried that more agents will lead to violence.
We are fundamentally opposed. What they're talking about is a facility between 5,000 and 10,000 humans who will be warehoused in something that was built as an Amazon distribution facility. And the attractiveness of the site is because it's next to railroads. I don't like big encampments next to train tracks and all of that. I think that is terribly un-American.
— Mayor Lucas
Flashback:Reports of ICE agents touring a south KC warehouse earlier this month generated a flurry of activity from county and local leaders.
KCMO's City Council passed an ordinance later that day barring all local permits, licenses or approvals for any "non-municipal detention facility."
The other side: ICE did not respond to Axios' requests for comment regarding the mayor's interview.
The agency previously told Axios it doesn't have any new facilities to announce, but that it is expanding its capacity.
