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Omaha Steve

(107,016 posts) Tue Aug 19, 2025, 03:33 PM Aug 19

Report: ICE plans to build a 300-bed detention facility near McCook, Nebraska

Source: Omaha World Herald

The Trump administration reportedly plans to build a new immigrant detention facility in McCook, Nebraska, and house migrants in several county jails as part of an effort to expand capacity.

According to planning documents reviewed by the Washington Post, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to open a 300-bed facility near the Work Ethic Camp in Red Willow County by as early as next month.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is expected to announce plans for the facility Tuesday, according to several sources.

The proposed detention center is part of ICE's plan to open or expand 125 facilities this year, more than doubling its capacity from 41,000 to more than 107,000 beds across the country.

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Report: ICE plans to build a 300-bed detention facility near McCook, Nebraska (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 19 OP

We can all thank the party of fiscal conservatism for giving them the absurd black check of a budget to do this. Karasu Aug 19 #1

Flyover States - ICE Prisons R US MrWowWow Aug 19 #2

Karasu

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1. We can all thank the party of fiscal conservatism for giving them the absurd black check of a budget to do this.

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Tue Aug 19, 2025, 03:39 PM

Aug 19

MrWowWow

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2. Flyover States - ICE Prisons R US

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Tue Aug 19, 2025, 03:42 PM

Aug 19

ND, SD, NE, KS, OK

No big loss there. They can't seem to successfully farm (corporate or family) anymore anyway. Might as well designate that part of the country "ICEVille." This very much reminds me of the Japanese internment camps of WW2. that were located in ....you guessed it, most of the flyover states:

ND, NE, KS, OK

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