LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced Tuesday that the Work Ethic Camp in McCook will be used as a 300-bed detention facility for people awaiting deportation and other immigration proceedings.

The announcement sparked protests taking place on the state capitol steps.

“We don’t need a detention facility where we’re going to house our neighbors and the people that came here to work and build families,” Kevin Abourezk, a Lincoln resident protesting outside the capitol on Tuesday, said. “They don’t deserve to live their lives out in a detention facility, in concentration camps.”

Other protesters gathering in McCook, where Gov. Pillen announced the plans.

“My whole family is immigrants, so this means a lot to me and it terrifies my family, and bringing this to the comm

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