US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is expanding its detention capacity by 1,000 beds in Indiana through a partnership with the mIce will be housing detainees at the Miami correctional center, a prison run by the Indiana department of corrections. The move is part of the US government’s rapid expansion of immigration jails after Donald Trump’s sweeping spending bill allotted roughly $170bn to Ice, an extraordinary sum making the agency the most heavily funded law enforcement department within the federal government.idwest state’s prison system, federal officials announced on Tuesday.
Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, said the Indiana facility would be called the “Speedway Slammer”, following last month’s opening of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail in Florida, in collaboration with Ron DeSantis, the state’s Republican governor.
Noem claimed Tuesday that the Indiana prison would house “some of the worst of the worst” of undocumented people, echoing DHS’ repeated claims about the targets of its enforcement. But records from the jail in the remote Florida Everglades, which critics have called a concentration camp, cast doubts on those assertions.
Noem claimed Tuesday that the Indiana prison would house “some of the worst of the worst” of undocumented people, echoing DHS’ repeated claims about the targets of its enforcement. But records from the jail in the remote Florida Everglades, which critics have called a concentration camp, cast doubts on those assertions.
Reporting from the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times last month found more than 250 people detained at the jail who have no criminal convictions or pending charges in the US, despite state and federal officials saying the jail was for “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” facing deportation. Those newspapers also recently reported that a 15-year-old boy with no criminal record was sent to the jail, which is not supposed to house youths – a mistake the jail claimed was due to the boy “misrepresenting” his age.