Where is ICE going next? Analysis of new DHS leases says NY, NJ, PA, CA,

[Ocelot II]

but almost everywhere else as well.

A Trump administration official recently told WIRED that California and New York are “next” for the type of fraud investigation that culminated in 3,000 ICE agents in Minneapolis. At least seven leasing projects are underway in California. In Sacramento, ICE has installed security features at the John E. Moss building ahead of further expansion. The location is already the site of a Justice Department immigration court. In Irvine, a city in Orange County located an hour’s drive from Los Angeles, ICE is moving into offices on 2020 Main Street, located right next to the airport and a childcare agency. In Van Nuys, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, ICE is expanding its offices at the James C. Corman federal building that also has offices for the IRS and Health and Human Services. Further expansion of ICE offices is also underway throughout the state, in federal buildings in Los Angeles, at San Diego’s Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse and federal building, and in Santa Ana’s federal building. The Santa Ana federal building is located within blocks of a church, the stadium for one of the nation's top high school football programs, and many government services.

In New York and New Jersey, ICE is expanding its physical footprint rapidly. In Roseland, New Jersey, less than an hour’s drive from New York City, ICE is moving into a building at 5 Becker Farm Road. The building is located near the Roseland Child Development Center. In Woodbury, New York, a hamlet in Long Island, ICE is moving into offices located at 88 Froehlich Farm Boulevard, near an expedited passport center. In New Windsor, New York, a town within driving distance of New York City along the Hudson River known for the Storm King Art Center, ICE is moving into offices at 843 Union Avenue. All three of these locations are within an hour and a half from a warehouse in Chester, New York, that DHS is pursuing as an immigrant detention center.

Several planned ICE office spaces are located near schools and early-childhood care centers. ICE is poised to move into a building on 1000 Westlakes Drive in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, suburb of Berwyn; the Hillside Elementary School is about a mile away. In Hartford, Connecticut, OPLA is poised to expand existing ICE office space in the Abraham A. Ribicoff federal building, which sits two blocks from the Betances elementary school. Back in Tennessee, ICE is ready to move into offices at 5904 Ridgeway Center Parkway in Memphis, in a building near the private all-girls Hutchison School. In the Columbus, Ohio, suburb of Westerville, OPLA appears ready to move into a small office building at 774 Park Meadow, near the Oakstone Academy High School. In Meridian, Idaho, ICE is moving into the Portico at Meridian Center, which is located near the Spalding STEM Academy high school. And in Oakbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, ICE is moving into the Oakbrook Gateway, an office building located near both a Bright Horizons daycare center and a hospice center.

A list of cities targeted for ICE expansion:

In documents viewed by WIRED, ICE has repeatedly outlined its expansion to cities around the US. The September memorandum citing “unusual and compelling urgency” for office expansion states that OPLA will be “expanding its legal operations” into Birmingham, Alabama; Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, and Tampa, Florida; Des Moines, Iowa; Boise, Idaho; Louisville, Kentucky; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Grand Rapids, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Raleigh, North Carolina; Long Island, New York; Columbus, Ohio; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Richmond, Virginia; Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The memorandum also states that the existing offices are at maximum capacity and will “require additional space” to accommodate the new employees hired. At the time, the memo states that OPLA had selected almost 1,000 attorneys to hire.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next
https://archive.is/BQfRW

Start organizing, folks.

[Walleye]

1. I hope they do try this shit and Philadelphia, will not comply.

[Ocelot II]

3. They've already seen what noncompliance looks like here in MN.

We've been effectively throwing sand in their gears for months now, and we're still not budging. While I'm not delusional enough to think they will be packing up and leaving despite their promise to "draw down," they have had to work very hard to make Stephen Miller's quota of roofers, hotel maids, journalists and murdered observers. I have no doubt that the good folks of Philadelphia will dig in just as hard.

[Walleye]

4. Yep, yes, the cradle of the American revolution is in Philadelphia

[PCIntern]

2. Berwyn , PA!!!????

Berwyn is Western Main Line territory and for their convoy to come down every day via the Schuylkill Expressway or Rt 30 is gonna be at least an hour into Philly, presuming that that is where they’re looking to deploy, which, I must add, is a BIG mistake.

Berwyn is a politically conservative area and they likely consider themselves safe there. We shall see.

[Walleye]

5. Human rights violations are bad enough, but holding up traffic is a cardinal sin

[PCIntern]

6. I wasn't implying that

The traffic is horrendous most of the time from that area to Philly. They’re gonna be stuck in traffic a lot.

[Walleye]

7. I get it, I hope they get completely stuck and can't move anywhere. They'll get out and start beating people up.

[Clouds Passing]

8. Organize traffic jams

[Nittersing]

9. Long Beach, NY? I thought that was a pretty solid red area.

Will be watching...

[ChappyNY]

10. Long Beach

I’m on LI. We’ve been getting hit here since last spring. It’s just not the made for TV version you’ve seen in Minneapolis, etc., but ICE is active on LI literally every single day, and while Long Beach hasn’t been hit as hard as some other places, they’ve been hit.

[Ocelot II]

11. "Made for TV"? Um, no. That was very, very real.

[ChappyNY]

12. Made-for-TV

Sorry, you took that the wrong way. When I say, “Made-for-TV” version, it’s not to say it’s fake. It’s the “EXTRA” version they want for the cameras to rile up the MAGAts and to try to intimidate those of us who stand up to them.

We don’t get coverage here, because they haven’t brought the “EXTRA” version here yet.

[Ocelot II]

13. OK, I get it. They wanted riots for TV and didn't get them.

Sorry I misunderstood!

[ChappyNY]

14. 👍

All good! I can totally see why you took it like that. Short-form writing…

They’re here every day, and I spent my first-ever night in jail in October for honking my horn to warn people the guy in front of me was ICE, but we haven’t had gas or flashbangs or guys breaking down doors. They move around in 4-5 unmarked vehicles at a time, and interrogate/kidnap brown people. A lot of the time, if we find them and can draw enough attention to them, they leave.

That said, we’ve started seeing marked SUVs being delivered to the Island — 24 that we know of so far. We haven’t seen a single marked vehicle in action ever, and they can serve no practical purpose in snatching people. They can only be used for instigation and intimidation. We’re concerned we’re the next made-for-TV event. We’re investing in ballistic goggles (safety glasses are not rated to stop pepper balls), respirators, etc.