Nebraska Announces Opening of Immigration Pri$on - Major Goal is 100% Non-White Occupancy

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen on Tuesday announced the opening of a new immigration detention center in the southwest corner of the state. Major General Craig Strong said that the move is an integral step in supporting “the president’s initiatives for homeland security.” The present McCook Work Camp will be transformed from a minimum-security facility and will expand its current holding capacity from about 185 to approximately 300.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that the new center, dubbed Cornhusker Clink, is a partnership between Nebraska and the DHS. Secretary Kristi Noem remarked that the partnership aims “to remove the worst of the worst out of our country.” Governor Pillen spoke similarly in the DHS press release, stating:

I am pleased that our facility and team in McCook can be tasked with helping our federal partners protect our homeland by housing criminal illegal aliens roaming our country’s communities today. I am also proud that the Nebraska State Patrol and National Guard will be assisting ICE enforcement efforts, as well. Homeland security starts at home, and, just as when I twice deployed troops to secure our southern border during the failed Biden administration, Nebraska will continue to do its part.

The new detention center mimics Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” from which deportations have already started to occur. Nebraska residents are protesting the new center’s opening, with some expressing concerns that it will parallel a “concentration camp.” One protestor pleaded, “We are not criminals. We’re people like these are people that you are putting in, like, these ethnic camps.” [MORE]