Rachel Maddow

Do you have any sense, any understanding, or even any theories as to why you've been singled out in this way?

And that attack for democracy defending itself has to be met with not just an equal-sized and equally aggressive defense of journalism and journalists, but one that is a defense effort that I think is larger than the attack that engendered it in the first place.

George Fort, I am a fan of your work.

The Twin Cities is lucky to have you now and forever.

Emmy Award-winning independent journalist in Minnesota.

I know you're going through a lot right now.

Please stay in touch.

We'd love to have you back as this moves forward.

Stay with us.

The warehouse was built originally as an Amazon distribution center.

But then a couple of weeks ago, on a Thursday morning, people spotted what appeared to be ICE agents at that facility.

Local news outlets got footage of these agents roaming around the vacant building.

A county legislator confronted them about what they were doing there.

Eventually, it became clear that the reason ICE agents were there

is because their agency was planning to buy that former Amazon warehouse to turn it into a Trump prison camp for immigrants.

By that afternoon, just hours later, the city's mayor had asked the city council to vote on a new ordinance that would effectively ban any such ICE facility, that would ban any facility like that in that city for five years, a five-year moratorium.

The ordinance passed that same day.

Overwhelmingly, it passed 12 to 1.

Like any of the cities or counties around the country right now that are trying to rein in ICE, Kansas City, Missouri will likely need to defend this new ordinance in court.

They will need to make it stick.