Local police in DeKalb County, just outside Atlanta, arrested Mario Guevara while he was covering a protest June 14, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took custody of him a few days later.

Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran national, alleges his detention is retaliation for his reporting on immigration-enforcement actions. The government denies this.

DHS announced Aug. 19 that it will use a minimum-security prison in southwest Nebraska as an immigration detention facility.

National Guard troops in at least seven states will begin a federally funded mission to help ICE manage its swelling population of detained migrants.

This state’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration detention center is being created in the roughly 7,500-resident city of McCook, Gov. Jim Pillen confirmed. His announcement Tuesday was part of a multi-pronged push to support the Trump administration and U.

Investigates has been pressing federal agencies for answers about why Jemmy Jimenez Rosa, 42, was detained, and lawmakers are weighing in at odds, saying her case highlights both the pressure on immigration agents and concerns about individual rights.

Federal officials blocked Reps. Paul Tonko and Dan Goldman from inspecting ICE facilities despite legal provisions authorizing congressional visits, highlighting tension and concerns over facility conditions.

The facility will be dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink,” a play on Nebraska’s nickname of the Cornhusker State and an old slang term for jail. The alliterative name follows in the vein of the previously announced “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Deportation Depot” detention centers in Florida and the “Speedway Slammer” in Indiana.

The Catholic Diocese of Lincoln has interacted with the Work Ethic Camp for decades, providing sacramental and pastoral care on a weekly basis for those imprisoned.

Nebraska officials announced plans to convert a McCook work camp into an immigration detention center dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink,” part of the Trump administration’s push to expand deportation facilities nationwide.

Dubbed the "Deportation Depot," Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference last week called the vacant Baker prison "ready-made infrastructure." It once held 1,165 inmates. The governor's office said the site would hold 1,