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DHS replaces 'Speedway Slammer' post. Here's how Indy car was changed
The Department of Homeland Security has taken down its post of a seemingly AI-generated IndyCar used to promote its immigrant ...
IndyCar officials and Pato O’Ward shocked by ICE-related ‘Speedway Slammer’ post
IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward and series officials were shocked by a social media post from the Department of Homeland Security ...
After pushback from IndyCar, social media post from Department of Homeland Security touting 'Speedway Slammer' taken down
The deletion came after DHS initially pushed back against IndyCar’s protestations. In a statement on Aug. 6, DHS said in a ...
Where is Indiana's 'Alligator Alcatraz'? About the prison Kristi Noem called 'Speedway Slammer'
The Miami Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located at the former Grissom Air Force Base about 70 miles north ...
Trump border czar reacts after Indy 500 track boss demands end to ‘Speedway Slammer’ moniker for new migrant detention center
Penske Entertainment said it preferred that its ‘IP not be utilized moving forward in relation to this matter’ ...
INDYCAR, Pato O'Ward respond to ICE-related 'Speedway Slammer' nickname for Miami Correctional Facility
The Miami Correctional Facility, approximately 70 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, is making 1,000 beds available to ICE ...
Mexican IndyCar driver 'caught off guard' by ICE's 'Speedway Slammer' post on social media
Pato O'Ward, a Mexican-born IndyCar driver, was "caught off guard" by the Department of Homeland Security's post depicting an ...
Pato O'Ward surprised by use of No. 5 IndyCar image in DHS's 'Speedway Slammer' tweet
"Definitely caught me off guard," driver Pato O'Ward says of the use of an IndyCar image with a No. 5 in the announcement of ...
Speedway officer, 2 suspects injured in crash during northwest Indianapolis pursuit
IMPD officers initially responded to a report around 9 p.m. Friday of a house that had been shot at on Dunk Drive.