Stateline reporter Kevin Hardy on efforts to locate large ICE detention centers across the country

News & Views · Mar 2, 2026 · 18m

Stateline reporter Kevin Hardy

There’s been no bigger or more controversial national news story in recent weeks than the Trump administration’s unprecedented immigration crackdown. All across the country – and perhaps most notably in Minnesota – federal immigration officers have employed an array harsh and often discriminatory and violent tactics to round up people suspected of being undocumented – many of them U.S. citizens.

And of course, the massive sweep has created a need for places to house detainees – at least temporarily – and so it is that we’re now learning of plans to create a vast…