Tim Vandenack covers immigration, multicultural issues and Northern Utah for KSL. He worked several years for the Standard-Examiner in Ogden and has lived and reported in Mexico, Chile and along the U.S.-Mexico border.
SALT LAKE CITY — As many of Utah 's Republican leaders keep relatively quiet amid news an immigration detention facility is coming, foes are raising their voices and clamoring for those in power to do what they can to stop the plans.
"I don't think it's likely to sway the governor, but we at least have to try," said Christopher Nicholson, one of around 100 protesters who gathered Tuesday outside the gubernatorial mansion of Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, to sound off on the issue."It's just really inhumane. I don't want another one to open in Salt Lake City," he said.The protesters spoke, sang and waved signs to passing traffic, echoing criticism about building an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that many Democratic leaders expressed late last week when the news first emerged. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, meanwhile, repeated her concerns with the plans in a letter Tuesday to Todd Lyons, the head of ICE, and asked for a meeting with agency officials to discuss the varied issues."While we are seeking additional information about the ultimate intended use for this building, a large-scale detention facility is inappropriate for this location and does not have the support of Salt Lake City officials," Mendenhall said in the letter, which she publicly released. She cited concerns with the sewer infrastructure the facility would need and its appropriateness in an industrial area, among other things, and asked for a response by March 27. Floyd Mori addresses demonstrators gathered outside the mansion of Gov. Spencer Cox in Salt Lake City on Tuesday to protest plans to build an immigrant detention facility in the city. According to property records, ICE last week purchased a 24.9-acre parcel containing a warehouse at 6020 W. 300 South. In a statement to KSL, ICE said it's planning a "very well-structured detention facility meeting our regular detention standards." Officials didn't state the timeline for development of the facility or how many people it would house.The ICE statement noted the job-creation benefits of the facility, also saying it would bring in $238.7 million in tax revenue, though it didn't say over what time frame or state how it arrived at the number."These economic benefits don't even take into account that removing criminals from the streets makes communities safer for business owners and customers. ICE is targeting criminal illegal aliens including mur
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