Hammond mayor says he hasn't heard about plan for 9,000-person ICE detention center in his town

Hammond mayor says he hasn't heard about plan for 9,000-person ICE detention center in his town

HAMMOND — Mayor Pete Panepinto says he knows nothing about a Trump administration plan to open a 9,000-person  immigration detention center in his town despite a report in the Washington Post last week saying one was in the works.The newspaper reported the government wanted to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees that await being removed from the country. A "feeder system" would assign detainees into seven large-scale warehouse holding up t…