DHS announced the "Speedway Slammer," a new detention center for unauthorized immigrants located in Indiana.
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Yet another ICE detention facility with a catchy name
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This one, the Speedway Slammer. A nod to Indiana's racing heritage and the Indy 500
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The Department of Homeland Security says the facility will be located at the Miami Correctional Facility, about 70 miles north of Indianapolis
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on the grounds of the former Grissom Air Force Base. The maximum security prison will add 1,000 new beds
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for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees. On Fox & Friends, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said many of those detainees will be prepared for deportation
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When individuals, these criminal illegal aliens, the worst of the worst, are detained by ICE
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they will be processed and go through due process and paperwork and then return to their countries
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Obviously, we want them, if they've committed criminal acts or been convicted of them
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we want them to pay the consequences of that, but then we will send them home
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They don't belong in this country. they never should have been allowed in under the Biden administration
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And so that's what this facility is in Indiana. Noem compared the Speedway Slammer to Florida's controversial detention center in the Everglades
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dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. DHS says the expansion is funded by the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill
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which adds 80,000 new ice beds nationwide. The Indianapolis Star reports Republican Governor Mike Braun signed an executive order in January
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directing Indiana law enforcers to fully cooperate with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown
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DHS also plans to use Camp Atterbury in Indiana as another temporary holding site in the future
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