Rachel Maddow

But I'll tell you, KC sounds ready for this fight.

The mayor of Kansas City in particular has been vocal in his opposition to this proposed prison camp.

He says, quote, Kansas City made it clear we do not want a human being detention warehouse slash camp holding between five and ten thousand people.

We will proudly enforce our moratorium ordinance.

We believe we are on solid legal ground.

Joining us now is Kansas City Mayor Quentin Lucas.

Mr. Mayor, thank you very much for being here.

It's nice to see you again.

We are monitoring all over the country.

There's a few dozen places that are fighting off ICE detention facilities, ICE prison camps, ICE processing facilities that they want to build, often in former warehouse facilities like this.

Let me just ask you about how you came to understand that this sort of threat was coming to your city and how you decided what your options were for confronting it.

In terms of the local press coverage about what's been happening, one of the things I've been interested in is the pressure on a local real estate company that seems to have been involved in potentially brokering this sale.

Do you have any information about how far along that sale process might be?

Is there pressure on that local company?

Is that likely to make a difference in terms of whether or not this comes to pass?

Okay, as a city mayor, Quentin Lucas, sir, it's been really interesting to watch your city respond as you learned about this, to build yourself a menu of options and start taking them whenever you can.

I'd love to stay in touch with you as this fight goes on.

I know that a lot of cities around the country are watching you right now to see what they can do to build up their own resistance to something like this.

Thank you, sir.

All right, we'll be right back.