DHS expands immigration detention in Indiana with 'Speedway Slammer'

Yet another ICE detention facility with a catchy name

This one, the Speedway Slammer. A nod to Indiana's racing heritage and the Indy 500

The Department of Homeland Security says the facility will be located at the Miami Correctional Facility, about 70 miles north of Indianapolis

on the grounds of the former Grissom Air Force Base. The maximum security prison will add 1,000 new beds

for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees. On Fox & Friends, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said many of those detainees will be prepared for deportation

When individuals, these criminal illegal aliens, the worst of the worst, are detained by ICE

they will be processed and go through due process and paperwork and then return to their countries

Obviously, we want them, if they've committed criminal acts or been convicted of them

we want them to pay the consequences of that, but then we will send them home

They don't belong in this country. they never should have been allowed in under the Biden administration

And so that's what this facility is in Indiana. Noem compared the Speedway Slammer to Florida's controversial detention center in the Everglades

dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. DHS says the expansion is funded by the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill

which adds 80,000 new ice beds nationwide. The Indianapolis Star reports Republican Governor Mike Braun signed an executive order in January

directing Indiana law enforcers to fully cooperate with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown

DHS also plans to use Camp Atterbury in Indiana as another temporary holding site in the future

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