00:00So federal agents toured a warehouse big enough to hold over 7,000 people.
00:05Kansas City officials say they weren't told until after.
00:07DHS and ICE agents quietly visited a near-
00:101,000,000 square foot warehouse on Kansas City's south side with the reported intention of-
00:15turning it into a large immigration detention center.
00:17Federal agencies aren't required to notify city-
00:20These before routine operations, but locals say this wasn't a routine operation because
00:23the visit wasn't about-
00:25an active case.
00:26It was allegedly about planning a permanent, large-scale detention facility inside city
00:29limits.
00:30And before you go and comment, nobody should care what that warehouse is used for, a facility
00:34that size would-
00:35couldn't just affect the people on the inside.
00:36When you add thousands of people to one location, it puts pressure on-
00:40housing, healthcare, traffic, and legal services, whether the city plans for it or not.
00:44And regardless-
00:45Regardless of where you stand on immigration, size changes impact.
00:48Bigger the facility, the more-
00:49the more pressure it puts on enforcement, oversight, and local systems.
00:53But no matter what, federal author-
00:54authority can override local laws, so if the government pushes forward, this could turn
00:58into a legal battle with the city-
00:59Attorneys say the biggest question isn't whether enforcement happens, it's how.
01:03Right now, Kansas City is-
01:04Waiting for answers, and asking the question, who gets a say when decisions like this happen
01:09quietly.
01:09Now our investigative reporter dug deep to uncover what was actually going on here,
01:13so if you have questions-
01:14ask us in the comments.
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