The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation fired senior members of one of its LLC's after blowback from the company accepting a contract with ICE.

The tribe on Dec. 9 posted on its Facebook pages that they were letting go the senior members of its Prairie Band LLC.

This comes after coverage of the LLC's $30 million contract with Homeland Security Department to design Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainment centers.

What did the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation say about the ICE contract?

The Facebook post states the tribe and LLC acknowledge and understand the concerns over the contract.

"As a sovereign Nation, our values guide the decisions we make, and we acknowledge that this contract is not align with those principles," the written statement read. "We take this matter seriously and

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