00:00And the Trump administration has announced plans for a new ICE detention facility in Nebraska
00:06that's set to hold 280 undocumented migrants.
00:10The facility will be dubbed the Cornhusker Clink,
00:14a play on Nebraska's nickname of the Cornhusker State and an old slang term for jail.
00:23Jono, the clink, we all know what the clink is.
00:27Yeah, I didn't know that Nebraska was the Cornhusker State until today.
00:31Well, there we are, I know.
00:32280 new beds are going into this.
00:34So on the grand scheme of things, this is quite small.
00:37Alligator Alcatraz was bigger by comparison, but not a lot bigger.
00:41What we know about it, we just know that it's going to be the detention centre
00:44whereby they will hold some of the many, many thousands of people,
00:47I'll go into that in a second, that have been detained in Nebraska
00:51while they're awaiting for their trial to find out if they're going to be legally permitted to live in the United States
00:56or they're going to join the illegal immigrants who are leaving the country.
01:02Approximately 150,000 in Nebraska alone.
01:05Now when you take it and put it into the equation,
01:07it doesn't seem like a lot because you've got 288 beds.
01:11So you can figure out the math on that.
01:13It's going to take a long time to get through all of that.
01:16If you look at the U.S. in its entirety, 46 million immigrants.
01:21Of that, it's estimated that around approximately 10 or 12 million of them
01:25are illegally staying in the country.
01:27So they have to be processed and they have to be removed from the country.
01:29And you might think, how long is that going to take
01:31at the current level of ICE detention centres that they have?
01:34And even with the 200% increase plan for Nebraska in the next,
01:38they reckon six to seven weeks, it might be a little bit more.
01:40It's still going to take 50 years at the current processing time that we're seeing
01:47in order to get through these legal immigrants
01:49and to find out if they actually are being permitted or have to be deported.
01:52So this is one of the big, big campaign trail mentions that we had.
01:58And it was a rhetoric that we had from the Trump administration
02:00that he was going to work on immigration.
02:03It seems like the feat is going to be almost impossible in this administration
02:07and maybe even in this lifetime for a lot of people who are alive right now.
02:1150 years is certainly a long, long time.
02:13Daily arrests are up from 1,000 to 3,000.
02:15That's based upon January of this year.
02:17So yes, there are more ICE agents.
02:19They are potentially getting more people behind bars.
02:22But what we've seen is a massive difference and massive sway
02:25in two or three separate things.
02:26One of those things is the number of people who have been arrested
02:28who are not actually convicts or criminals.
02:31And that has gone from where it was up to 70%,
02:34which is a sharp, sharp rise in that.
02:36And we're seeing a lot more people who have been detained
02:39with 3 million on the backlog now to have their case heard in front of a court.
02:43So it's not working quite according to plan.
02:46And I don't think on the scale that we're seeing here
02:48that we're going to achieve that.
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