Summary

<p>Governor Jim Pillen announced on August 19th that ICE has plans to repurpose a facility in McCook, Nebraska, as a large-scale federal detainment camp. The 200 capacity building will be used to incarcerate up to 300 immigrant community members from Nebraska and surrounding states.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is part of a harmful, dangerous and rapid national expansion of ICE enforcement capacity that includes the potential for 125 additional ICE detention facilities across the country.</p> <p><em><strong>This is not who we are. Nebraska is a state that welcomes our neighbors and values the contributions of local moms, dads, coworkers, neighbors, and friends. Nebraskans do not want us to be known as a state that separates families and locks up and detains members of our communities.</strong></em>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>We need policy change, not punishment.</strong></p> <p>Sign today to tell Governor Pillen that Nebraskans say NO to opening a cruel and harmful ICE detainment camp anywhere in our state.</p>