Kansas Republicans overrode their own governor to pass the Halo Act, a moving 25-foot arrest zone around every agent in the state. In Olathe, ICE is already using it to trap the people who film them, with local police finishing the arrests.
In nine days, ICE's occupying force disappeared neighbors from gas stations, doorways, and a fruit stand while Kansas City sold the world a party. This is the full record of the manhunt, and what the community built to fight back."
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.
The move blocks permits for non-municipal detention centers as the Trump regime eyes KC for a 10,000-person ICE concentration camp
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.
Disguised as anti-immigrant policy, the government is now abducting and trafficking legal U.S. residents into high-tech death camps in El Salvador.
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.
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