Nebraska Republican village. Jim Pillain on Tuesday announced plans as the administration of President Trump for an immigration detention center in a farming area in the south -west corner of the state Race to expand Infrastructure required for increasing exile.
Pillain said that he and the security secretary of Homeland Christie Nom had agreed to use an existing minimum security jail work camp in Rural Mackk, who were waiting for the housemates for exile and were organized for other immigration proceedings.
The new facility was termed as “Cornhuser Clink” last week by Rob Jefferies, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. It can accommodate 200 people with a plan to expand up to 300. Mackuk is about 210 miles from the state capital Lincoln.
Pillain said in a statement, “This is about Nebraksons – and keeping Americans across our country safe.”
Pillain announced that he would order the Nebraska National Guard to provide administrative and logical assistance to the Nebraska-based immigration agents. About 20 guards will be involved.
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He also said that Nebraska State Petrol would sign an agreement that enables soldiers to help arrest federal immigration agents.
The DHS said in a news release that the agreement was made by Mr. Trump to expand the immigration and customs enforcement place with the state. “Big, Beautiful Bill” Last month was passed by the Congress. Funding bill includes To expand its prevention system, $ 45 billion for ice, and about 30 billion dollars for ice agents and resources.
Jefferies said that currently 186 people in Mackuk would be transferred to other state reform facilities to re -prepared the camp.
The facility will be run by the state of Nebraska, but will be paid by the federal government. Jefferies said that all people are expected to decrease for moderate-risk prisoners.
Jefferies estimated that it would take 45 to 60 days to transfer all existing Mackk population, while a gel in Lincoln is recently repaired with storm damage. It was not immediately clear how soon the snow could start sending Mackuk to prisoners.
But Jefferies said that it is already installed to the people of the house, so the prisoners will not be placed in tents or other temporary quarters. “That facility has already been recognized. It is ready in the event that we are to take our people out and transfer prisoners,” he said.
“Thanks to our country’s worst, thanks to our partnership,” NoM said in a statement on Tuesday, “No. thanks Governor Pillain. “If you are illegally in the US, you can find yourself at the Cornhocker Clink of Nebraska. Now using the CBP home app, now avoid arrests and self -dispenses.”
The Nebraska scheme has already expressed concern.
One in Video Posted on social media, the state Sen Megan Hunt, an independent, exploded the lack of transparency about plans for a detention center, which cited his unfinished request to the Governor and Executive Branch for email and other records about the scheme.
He urged people to support local immigrant rights groups, and said no response by the Legislature would come by next year – and only with adequate support from MPs.
Hunt said, “Whatever we need to do, we need to protect our neighbors, protect people in our communities who are being targeted by these terrible people, these terrible organizations that are making options to close their neighbors and families and families and friends, to detain, disappear,” Hunt said.
Six protesters sat in the hallway outside the Governor’s office on Tuesday afternoon, stating “No Nazi Nebraska” and “Ice = Gestapo.”
Maggi Miller-Jenkins of Lincoln said that he does not think an ice detention center is a good idea, connecting the state should deal with problems such as hunger and homeless. Miller-Jenkins said, “There are many things in this state that they can focus on, which will benefit the component.”
Trump administration is adding New detention facilities across the country It has accused of illegally living in the country to hold the increasing number of migrants. Old and new American immigration and customs enforcement centers were catching over 56,000 migrants in June, the highest since 2019.
Other new and planned immigration in the US include the facilities Remote Detention Center at Florida Everglades Known as “Elegator Alkatraz,” Which was opened last month. It is designed to place 3,000 detainees in temporary tent structures. When Mr. Trump visited it, He suggested that it could be a model Nationwide for future lockups.
When federal officials announced the opening of Florida Detention Center, he said that it would be focused on scoring individuals with a criminal record – people that Mr. Trump and Seema Caesar Tom Homan have called the “worst of the worst”. However, many people who have been closed there Are not criminal recordsCBS News said earlier.
Florida has also been facing facility Topic The lawyers who accuse of violation of the fixed process there, including the rights of prisoners to meet their lawyers, include limited access to immigration courts. And the situation of being poorCritics are trying to prevent further construction and operation until it comes to compliance with federal environmental laws.
Florida village. Ron Desantis announced last week that his administration was preparing to open a second facility to “exile depot” in a state jail in North Florida. State officials said that it is expected to have 1,300 immigration beds, although that capacity can be expanded up to 2,000.
In addition, last week, officials of the Rural Tency Town of Mason voted to approve agreements to start a pre -jail in a immigration preventive facility run by a private company, despite the loud objections of residents and workers during a controversial public meeting.
And the Trump administration announced plans for 1,000-bed earlier this month Prevention center in Indiana This “speedway slammer” will be dubbed, which inspires a backlash in the midwestern state that hosts the Indianapolis 500 auto race.
