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April 21, 2026

New ICE facilities don’t always follow local rules. It’s costing cities serious legal fees: Exclusive
By Jessica McMaster


Under its new name, the Midwest Regional Reception Center (MRRC), the facility began housing ICE immigrant detainees in March 2026. As of April 10, 2026 – the most recent date for which data is available – seven people were detained at the facility, which has a capacity for 1,002 detainees, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan research center at Syracuse University.


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