LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (KCTV) – On Monday, more than two dozen people gathered outside CoreCivic’s ICE detention center in Leavenworth, the Midwest Regional Reception Center to hold a vigil.
They voiced concerns for the detainees inside the MRRC and about ICE activity. It comes a day after the same group held a rally outside the facility on Sunday.
“This isn’t just an issue to Kansas City or Leavenworth, this is an issue that affects immigrants across the community and across our nation,” said Lauren Boyer. “When we discovered Leavenworth now has this detention center and there are 240 people locked up here only two months after it’s opened, we decided we needed to get loud about it.”…