Department of Homeland Security officials recently began promoting a deal with Indiana to use 1,000 state prison beds for federal immigration detention – calling it the “Speedway Slammer.” (The facility itself is 70 miles north of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, near Bunker Hill.) Social media posts from government accounts hyping the deal included an AI-generated image of an ICE-branded IndyCar on track at a version of the speedway that featured a hulking prison in the background instead of the iconic pagoda.

The IndyCar racing series – which shares corporate ownership with the speedway – acted swiftly to extricate itself from a conversation it hadn’t wished to enter about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, asking DHS to stop using its intellectual property in the post generated by ar

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