DHS deletes X post promoting new immigrant detention facility with IndyCar image
After Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Penske Entertainment requested on August 6 that the image not be used, DHS said that the agency did not plan to change the way it marketed the facility.
DHS on Friday did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why the post was deleted.
The original post featured an image of a white IndyCar emblazoned with the letters 'ICE' — Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The car also bore a number 5, leading critics to point out that Pato O'Ward, who drives the number 5 IndyCar, is the only Mexican 500 driver.
'We were unaware of plans to incorporate our imagery as part of the announcement,' Penske Entertainment said in a statement to IndyStar. 'Consistent with our approach to public policy and political issues, we are communicating our preference that our IP not be utilized moving forward in relation to this matter.'
A DHS spokesperson on August 6 told IndyStar that the Trump Administration did not see a problem with the image.
'An AI generated image of a car with 'ICE' on the side does not violate anyone's intellectual property rights,' DHS said in the statement. 'Any suggestion to the contrary is absurd.'
The so-called Speedway Slammer, as named by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, will use 1,000 beds at the Miami Correctional Facility to house and detain immigrants. The move, announced Aug. 1, comes amid the Trump Administration's sweeping deportation efforts and crackdowns on immigration to the U.S.
Last month, a similar detention facility in Florida, nicknamed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' made headlines for the allegedly 'inhumane' conditions detainees say they are facing.
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