Immigration

CoreCivic Kills People. Leavenworth Is Voting on Whether to Let Them Do It Here.

By Chris Lopez ● Editorial ● March 10, 2026

Leavenworth was founded by pro-slavery settlers and became the epicenter of Bleeding Kansas. That same city votes today on whether to resurrect a CoreCivic detention facility — a company that has already killed people in its custody — and open a 1,000-bed ICE camp to kidnap, cage, and disappear immigrants from our region. The shackles have always looked different here. This morning, Leavenworth decides what they look like in 2026.

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They lured Rosmery Alvarado into a federal building with a green card interview then snatched her and stuffed her in a white van. No warning. No goodbye. Just disappearance. Her family is left shattered—another casualty of a violent, fascist machine.

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INVESTIGATION: CoreCivic’s Plan to Turn Leavenworth Into an ICE Concentration Camp

By Ryan S. ● Immigration ● February 26, 2025

CoreCivic is quietly planning a new ICE detention camp in Leavenworth, Kansas – a for-profit facility designed to cage immigrants. This dystopian ICE facility, fueled by political lobbying and blood money, echoes the horrors of history’s concentration camps. This investigation exposes the greed, and state violence behind CoreCivic’s scheme.