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In Kansas City, they passed a five-year moratorium on any non-municipal detention facility of any kind being built in Kansas City.
Communities across the U.S. resist Trump's plans for new immigration prison camps amid protests and local government actions.
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Key Takeaways
- Local governments and communities are actively resisting the expansion of immigration detention facilities.
- Public protests and political actions are crucial in halting or delaying the construction of new prison camps.
- Existing detention centers have serious humanitarian and safety issues, including deaths and disease outbreaks.
- The Trump administration's plan to massively expand detention capacity poses significant ethical and civil rights concerns.
- Preventing these camps now is vital to avoid creating a permanent, widespread system of detention centers.
What the video covers
- Kansas City enacted a five-year moratorium to block non-municipal detention facilities, targeting Trump's proposed prison camp.
- Local companies collaborating with ICE face public backlash and potential business boycotts in Kansas City.
- Protests erupted in Surprise and Tucson, Arizona, opposing ICE's purchase of warehouses for detention centers.
- In Maryland, Howard County revoked a building permit for a planned Trump prison camp, reflecting local government resistance.
- Existing detention centers like Dilley, Texas, face protests amid reports of poor conditions and a measles outbreak.
- Deaths have occurred in camps such as Fort Bliss, Texas, highlighting severe issues within current facilities.
- Trump administration aims to build 23 new detention facilities nationwide, potentially doubling detainee capacity.
- New camps could hold up to 10,000 people each, raising concerns about management and long-term use beyond immigration detention.
- Widespread local opposition spans politically conservative states, signaling a national movement against these prison camps.
- Stopping these camps now could prevent the establishment of a large, indefinite network of detention centers.
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That moratorium is designed specifically to stop Trump from putting a prison camp.
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In Kansas City.
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They say they're ready to defend that in court.
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And meanwhile, the local real estate company in Kansas City that has reportedly been working with ICE.
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To try to cite this prison camp in Kansas City.
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Well, the local port district in Kansas City is considering cutting off all business with that company.
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In response to their work with ICE.
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I should also say that local company is just getting dragged through it in the local press.
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Headline the Kansas City Star, quote, the brothers behind Platform Ventures could choose not to sell out Kansas City to ICE.
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Opinion.
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From that op-ed, quote, drop the deal.
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Eat the embarrassment.
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Find another buyer.
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Make a clean break and say, plainly, that you don't want your legacy tied to masked men hauling people out of their homes and into warehouses on the edge of town.
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The alternative is a lifetime of being whispered about behind your backs everywhere from church fundraisers to the Crown seats at the Royals game.
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People remember.
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The Andersons aren't breaking the law, but they could choose not to be the villain in this story.
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They could decide not to treat this moment as just another business transaction.
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People would remember that, too.
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That's Kansas City.
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Again, the mayor will be here in just a moment.
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Tonight's show.
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Surprise, Arizona.
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ICE has already bought a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona to develop apparently into a huge prison camp there.
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But more than a thousand people turned out in Surprise, Arizona this weekend to say, don't do it.
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We don't want it here.
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In Tucson, Arizona, the local press says 6,000 people packed the downtown.
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Protesting against ICE this weekend.
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But hey, Tucson, just a half hour outside Tucson in Marana, Arizona, M A R A N A, just north west of of Tucson.
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Locals there are protesting.
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This is Pima County.
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There's a group that's formed there against a planned Trump prison camp in Marana, Arizona.
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It's called Price for Pima resists ICE.
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They've got a petition going, they're doing everything they can to try to stop a Trump prison camp from going in there as well.
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Again, that's just a half an hour from Tucson.
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Near Hagerstown, Maryland, in a place called Williamsport.
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ICE has already bought the warehouse there that they want to turn into a huge Trump prison camp.
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We have seen US senators and members of Congress and locals protesting to try to stop that just outside Hagerstown, Maryland.
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But it's not the only place in Maryland, an hour and a half away from there.
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In Howard County, Maryland, a place called Elkridge.
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ICE apparently wants to build another Trump prison camp there.
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Well, today.
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Look at this, the Howard County, Maryland, County Executive, his name is Calvin Ball.
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Tonight, he announced.
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That as of this evening, he is revoking the building permit.
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For the facility where they were doing the build out to try to form a Trump prison camp there as well.
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Watch.
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As we continue to witness the devastating consequences of federal enforcement actions across our nation, including.
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Loss of life.
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And civil unrest.
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It is more important than ever that local government.
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Acts with clarity.
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Restraint.
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And compassion.
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And it is our responsibility as local leaders to act before harm occurs.
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And not after.
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Today, my director of inspections, licenses and permits revoked the building permit.
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For this detention center.
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Together, we will stand united.
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Work collaboratively together.
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And safeguard our community and stand up for dignity.
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That concludes my remarks.
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That concludes my remarks.
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That is the County Executive of Howard County, Maryland.
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His name is Calvin Ball.
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Announcing tonight that the county government is revoking the building permit for Trump's prison camp that they were trying to build in Elkridge, Maryland.
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If they build them, they will fill them.
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And there's different forms of leverage available for various facilities of these kinds, right?
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If they want to build them on military bases or on other facilities they've already got federal control of.
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There's little leverage to be able to stop them from building those facilities.
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Once they've built them or they got those facilities open, people absolutely can still show up and protest the heck out of those facilities.
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Which you have seen even just over the last few days.
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For example, at the gates of the prison camp in Dilley, Texas.
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In Dilley, Texas, they're holding men, women and children there.
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Dilley, Texas is where the prisoners themselves revolted inside the facility in peaceful protest last week.
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Reportedly, when they heard about the protests nationwide over what had happened in Minneapolis.
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Dilley, Texas is where five-year-old Liam Ramos was sent from Minneapolis.
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Before a judge this weekend ordered him and his father freed and sent home.
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But Dilley is where hundreds of other kids are still being held.
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And where there is now, the government admits, a measles outbreak.
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No good.
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People have been protesting regularly at the gates of Dilley now in Texas.
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People have also been protesting regularly at Fort Bliss.
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At Camp East Montana.
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Where at least three people have died in just the past two months.
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Including one man whose death has been ruled a homicide by the local medical examiner.
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I mean, in in the existing prison camps they've got, Trump is already holding more than 73,000 people right now, which is a record.
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They want to build 16 new processing facilities and seven new huge warehouse facility camps.
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If they build those, if they can build those 23 new facilities that they've said they want to build in these communities that I've been describing all over the country.
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If they can build those 23 new facilities, that'll give them the space to more than double the number of people they're holding in the camps.
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The biggest one they've got right now holds about 3,000 people.
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That's the one at Fort Bliss where three people have died in the past eight weeks.
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Again, about 3,000 people are there now.
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There's already people regularly dying there.
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3,000 people there now, they want their new prison camps to be closer to 10,000 people.
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How do you think those facilities are going to be run?
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If they build them, they will fill them up.
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And yes, maybe they will use them for immigration detention.
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Now.
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Whatever that is.
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Their prison camps.
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But if history tells us anything, it tells us that once facilities like this are built in these kinds of numbers.
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Once you get an archipelago of facilities like this built in numbers like this.
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Yeah, they may start as immigration detention, but they're available to them indefinitely for whatever they want to do with those camps.
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And so you see something that has been mostly flying under the radar of the national media, but may absolutely be key to our destiny as a nation.
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Everywhere they are trying to build these things.
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Including in the reddest states in the country.
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Everywhere, people are pulling out all the stops to prevent these camps from being built.
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And I have to tell you, if the country stops them from building them, they will never again have this kind of momentum to try to build a constellation of prison camps this large outside the reach of the law.
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I mean, why would we give this government that kind of power, that kind of tool to use indefinitely?
Topics:Trumpimmigration detentionprison campsICEprotestsKansas CityMarylandArizonaFort BlissDilley Texas
