Milwaukee alderwoman blasts proposal for ICE ‘detention facility’ [Video]

Milwaukee Alderwoman Larresa Taylor said the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is exercising a federal exemption allowing the agency to avoid city approval to modify a building to become a detention facility.”Initially, I thought this was not something that I wanted to sponsor in our district. However, we were not given the choice,” Taylor said Tuesday night.Modifications to the property, near the intersection of Lake Park Drive and Park Place, would include a sally port with chain link fence to transport prisoners to and from the facility, a press release from Taylor’s office indicated.Taylor said the building’s owner initially reached out to her office for support for the project in early December. She said she has since learned ICE is able to apply the exemption and move forward with the plans without public input.”It’s important, as a representative, to let residents of the district know what’s happening around them. …