Despite Kansas City's "welcoming" designation . . . A pricey new facility features an influx of one way flights out of town . . . Here's prog blog consternation over this fact of life . . . Check-it:
At least once, but sometimes multiple times a week, flights are leaving or arriving at KCI with detainees in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Handcuffs, waist chains and leg irons are used on many ICE flights.
Most of the flights are chartered with private companies through subcontractor agreements, collectively dubbed “ICE Air.”
Immigration-related flights in and out of Missouri, primarily through KCI, increased more than 200% in the first year of the Trump administration, according to data compiled by Human Rights First, which produces the ICE Flight Monitor report.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Shackled immigrants targeted for deportation are being flown in and out of Kansas City International Airport
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