Salt Lake City mayor asks for urgent meeting with feds over ICE warehouse purchase

By: Katie McKellar

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: March 17, 2026

Words: 774

Last Updated: 3 days, 15 hours ago

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Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall on Tuesday sent a letter to a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official asking for a meeting over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recent $145.4 million purchase of a warehouse property in the city.

In the letter, Mendenhall asked Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, to respond by March 27 “with times you or your designee can meet with myself and other Salt Lake …

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