Governor Receives 18,300 Petition Signatures Opposing “Cornhusker Clink”

A week after Jim Pillen announced plans to repurpose a facility in McCook as a large-scale ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention center, the governor was presented with a petition containing more than 18,300 signatures opposing the “Cornhusker Clink,” as the proposed facility has been dubbed. The announcement came yesterday, August 28, from Nebraska …