LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- When I saw the name "Speedway Slammer" trending, I did a double take.

An immigration detention center at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway? That would be news. And strange news, at that.

Turns out, it's neither.

The name is a creation of the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration, which announced this week that Indiana’s Miami Correctional Facility — a former Air Force base turned maximum-security prison, 70 miles from the famous oval — will be used to house up to 1,000 detained immigrants . To promote the plan, DHS posted a digitally generated image of an IndyCar plastered with ICE logos, zooming in front of a prison-like facility. They branded it the "Speedway Slammer."

But they didn’t run that branding by the folks who own the actual

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