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DHS replaces 'Speedway Slammer' post. Here's how Indy car was changed

The Department of Homeland Security has taken down its post of a seemingly AI-generated IndyCar used to promote its immigrant ...

After pushback from IndyCar, social media post from Department of Homeland Security touting 'Speedway Slammer' taken down

The deletion came after DHS initially pushed back against IndyCar’s protestations. In a statement on Aug. 6, DHS said in a ...

Indiana announces a ‘Speedway Slammer’ to house migrants and become the Hoosier state’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Indiana is expanding a state prison by 1,000 beds to house migrants in what Trump officials are calling the ‘Speedway Slammer ...

IndyCar officials and Pato O’Ward shocked by ICE-related ‘Speedway Slammer’ post

IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward and series officials were shocked by a social media post from the Department of Homeland Security ...

'Speedway Slammer' will be Indiana's version of 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Kristi Noem says

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that the administration had dubbed Indiana's Miami Correctional Facility ...

INDYCAR, Pato O'Ward respond to ICE-related 'Speedway Slammer' nickname for Miami Correctional Facility

The Miami Correctional Facility, approximately 70 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, is making 1,000 beds available to ICE ...
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No new construction: Feds to use 1K empty Indiana prison beds to house immigration detainees

Indiana Capital Chronicle News of the so-called “Speedway Slammer” is roiling Indiana, with confusion over a plan to house up ...

IMS owner asks Homeland Security to stop using IndyCar in 'Speedway Slammer' plans

IndyCar has asked Homeland Security to stop using Speedway in its branding for an ICE detention center in Indiana.