ICE To Open “Cornhusker Clink” Concentration Camp

The Associated Press reports:

Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in a farming area in the state’s southwest corner as President Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.

Pillen said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to use an existing minimum security prison work camp in rural McCook to house people awaiting deportation and being held for other immigration proceedings.

The new facility was dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink” last week by Rob Jeffreys, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Six protesters sat in the hallway outside the governor’s office Tuesday afternoon making signs that said, “No Nazi Nebraska” and “ICE = Gestapo.”

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COMING SOON: THE CORNHUSKER CLINK 🌽 https://t.co/jGrZS8opsW pic.twitter.com/W75pCHipHm

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