1 of 3 | Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, pictured here in 2023, discussed the opening of "Cornhusker Clink" at a press conference. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The Trump administration unveiled plans Tuesday for the "Cornhusker Clink," its latest project to expand immigrant detention centers in partnership with state authorities.
The center will be located within the Work Ethic Camp, a minimum security state prison, located in McCook, a small town in Nebraska of about 7,000 people. The Cornhusker Clink will add up to 280 beds to house immigrants captured by Immigration Customs Enforcement agents as part of the Trump administration's plans for mass deportations.
The facility is the third of its kind, and is part of a partnership between Republican governors and federal authorities. Like two facilities unveiled earlier, the name of the Cornhusker Clink makes the same use of alliteration and reference to local touchstones as Florida's Alligator Alcatraz and Indiana's Speedway Slammer.
"I'm grateful for President Trump to say, 'It is important that we find the criminals, the bad people and remove them," Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said at a press conference. "And so we're on the team."
