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New Indiana immigration detention center dubbed "Speedway Slammer" draws backlash

The Trump administration will build a new immigration detention center in Miami County, Indiana, already nicknamed the ...

'Deepens Indiana's complicity': Immigrant rights groups criticize 'Speedway Slammer' plans

The Trump Administration is effectively eliminating due process for Hoosier immigrants as a practical matter,' opponents of ...

Where is Indiana's 'Alligator Alcatraz'? About the prison Kristi Noem called 'Speedway Slammer'

The Miami Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located at the former Grissom Air Force Base about 70 miles north ...

IndyCar officials and Pato O’Ward shocked by ICE-related ‘Speedway Slammer’ post

IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward and series officials were shocked by a social media post from the Department of Homeland Security ...

INDYCAR, Pato O'Ward respond to ICE-related 'Speedway Slammer' nickname for Miami Correctional Facility

The Miami Correctional Facility, approximately 70 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, is making 1,000 beds available to ICE ...
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Kristi Noem unveils plans for Indiana's Alligator Alcatraz: The Speedway Slammer

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced plans for a migrant detention center in Indiana called The Speedway Slammer ...

After pushback from IndyCar, social media post from Department of Homeland Security touting 'Speedway Slammer' taken down

The deletion came after DHS initially pushed back against IndyCar’s protestations. In a statement on Aug. 6, DHS said in a ...

Indiana Governor welcomes ICE detention center, answers questions about redistricting

An ICE detention center is coming to Indiana and talk of redistricting is the topic of conversation in red and blue states.Indiana Governor Mike Braun was in So ...