Cornhusker copyright? Getting the facts on the name of Nebraska's new ICE detention facility; KETV, August 20, 2025

  

Waverle Monroe, KETV; Cornhusker copyright? Getting the facts on the name of Nebraska's new ICE detention facility

[Kip Currier: How crass and unnecessarily demeaning it is for ICE to use the name Cornhusker Clink to refer to a detention facility. This administration, unsurprisingly given its past actions, continues to be more focused on alliterative branding and merchandising opportunities (recall Alligator Alcatraz) than modeling professionalism in the ways it communicates a commitment to treating all detainees with dignity and respect.]

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"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security dubbed the new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility as the "Cornhusker Clink." 

You can't hear the word Cornhusker without thinking of the University of Nebraska.

Many on social media questioned the legality of using the name Cornhusker for the facility. Now KETV is helping you get the facts."

Selling “Alligator Alcatraz” Prison Merchandise Is a Deranged New Low for the GOP;Esquire, July 2, 2025

Charles P. Pierce,  Esquire; Selling “Alligator Alcatraz” Prison Merchandise Is a Deranged New Low for the GOP

"What better way to mark the 249th birthday of this nation than to celebrate the opening of an open-air concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades? Not merely celebrate it but also turn it into an instant pop-culture phenomenon with T-shirts and ball caps and as complete a lack of moral conscience as exists in all the misplaced pythons in the swamps beyond...

Red states, which would not have economies if it weren’t for the patient suffering of the blue states they so deride, are now lining up to participate in the construction of an American gulag system. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Texas jumped to the front of the line. No gators, but lots of scorpions and venomous snakes ready to do their duty—until they all agree to unionize, at which point Governor Greg Abbott will feast on their living flesh. Of course, how can, say, Mississippi and Alabama resist getting in on all this sweet merch cash?"