ICE’s 80,000-Bed Push Hits Nebraska: ‘Cornhusker Clink’ Adds Hundreds As DHS Expands Deportation Detention

DHS and ICE will convert and expand Nebraska’s Work Ethic Camp in McCook into the ‘Cornhusker Clink,’ adding roughly 280 beds to an existing 200-bed site as part of a nationwide detention buildout funded by Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’ Officials say National Guard and state partners will provide support, and other large projects like ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida and Fort Bliss in Texas signal a broad capacity surge to speed removals. Civil liberties groups warn about due process and oversight at rapidly scaled facilities.