Weeks after Kansas City publicly pushed back against the possibility of turning a local warehouse into a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, city officials are looking more critically at their own jail project.
At first glance, some City Council members drew parallels between ICE facilities or warehouses and the city’s own, new $25 million temporary city jail now under construction in the East Bottoms.
“It looks like an ICE detention center,” Councilwoman Melissa Robinson said into her microphone just seconds into being shown a drone video of the 200-foot by 250-foot metal building expected to be completed by mid-May…