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

An existing minimum security prison work camp in southwest Nebraska will be used as a new immigration detention facility.

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.