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Planned Locations for New and Expanded ICE Offices

  • 2334 E. Highway 80, Douglas, Arizona
  • Deconcini Port of Entry, Nogales, Arizona
  • 2020 Main Street, Irvine, California
  • James C. Corman Federal Building, Los Angeles, California
  • John E. Moss Federal Building, Sacramento, California
  • Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse and Federal Building, San Diego, California
  • Santa Ana Federal Building, Santa Ana, California
  • Abraham A. Ribicoff Federal Building, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Potomac Center North, Washington, DC
  • One Enterprise Center, Jacksonville, Florida
  • One Riverview Square, Miami, Florida
  • 75 Vineyards Boulevard, Naples, Florida
  • 12249 Science Drive, Orlando, Florida
  • 1551 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway, Sunrise, Florida
  • Portico At Meridian Center, Meridian, Idaho
  • Oakbrook Gateway, Oakbrook, Illinois
  • Penn on Parkway, Carmel, Indiana
  • 1201 Third Street, Alexandria, Louisiana
  • One City Center Building, Portland, Maine
  • 201 International Circle, Cockeysville, Maryland
  • 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland
  • John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Rosa Parks Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan
  • Waters Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • One Towne Square, Southfield, Michigan
  • Norris Cotton Federal Building, Manchester, New Hampshire
  • 5 Becker Farm Road, Roseland, New Jersey
  • 843 Union Avenue, New Windsor, New York
  • 88 Froehlich Farm Boulevard, Woodbury, New York
  • 11000 Regency Lakeview, Cary, North Carolina
  • Whitehall Corporate Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • 774 Park Meadow Road, Westerville, Ohio
  • Corporate Tower, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building, Portland, Oregon
  • 1000 Westlakes Drive, Berwyn, Pennsylvania
  • 801 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Park Place Corporate Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 3000 Sidney Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Yorktowne Medical Center, York, Pennsylvania
  • San Patricio Office Center, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
  • 1441 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina
  • 5904 Ridgeway Center Parkway, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Estes Kefauver Federal Building, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Nashville House Office Building, Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3381 US Highway 277, Eagle Pass, Texas
  • Epicenter Office Community, El Paso, Texas
  • 222 E. Van Buren Avenue, Harlingen, Texas
  • 125 E. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving, Texas
  • 15727 Anthem Parkway, San Antonio, Texas
  • 1780 Hughes Landing, The Woodlands, Texas
  • Heritage Center, Annandale, Virginia
  • The Moorefield, Richmond, Virginia
  • Cabot Park, Sterling, Virginia
  • Riverfront Technical Park, Tukwila, Washington

Archived copies of the article (do not contain the location list)

If you have one coming, it's important to set up a local rapid response network. That means:

  • A hotline for locals to call (and distributing the number)
  • Town or neighborhood level signal chats to alert people about what is happening
  • Whistle distribution so that it's possible to rapidly alert immediate neighbors
  • Starting regular patrols to spot ICE before they kidnap anybody
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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Edit: See Silence7's comment below, unlisted planned locations and expansions may undermine the conclusions.

My observations:

The list adds more evidence that Trump/Miller are actively planning to use ICE to interfere with polling in 2026 and (their hope is) 2028. The following states are states that are potentially contestable either as Biden '20-Trump'24 swing states or are close enough to swing that ICE's racial profiling against primarily Latinos may swing demographics. These are getting high amounts of ICE buildout (Edit: Per the limited, incomplete list of planned locations on Wired):

  • Arizona (2)
  • Florida (5) (*2026 senate seat)
  • Michigan (3) (*2026 senate seat)
  • North Carolina (2) (*2026 senate seat)
  • Pennsylvania (5)
  • Texas (6) (*2026 senate seat)
  • Virginia (3) (*2026 senate seat)

California is also getting 5, and that may reflect the plan to use it as the next flashpoint state. Since California may be seen as more likely to be volatile, I could imagine the plan is to replicate Minnesota in California this summer. They may assume they will succeed in getting Fox News-ready violent response footage if they continue acting illegally, and use that propaganda to try to give cover to the Insurrection Act, leading to an antifa "anti-terrorist" push, which then is used nationwide to justify ICE at high-value House/Senate swing district polling stations in the fall.

States that Trump were previously trialing ICE takeover but are safely democratic (Oregon, Illinois) are NOT getting significantly more offices, which again suggests they don't intend to try to swing those. Neither is Minnesota. That is likely because Trump (i.e., Miller) isn't going to risk more bad PR there. He knows murdering Nice White People™ is the red line for most of the low-information public who will shrug at "is it or isn't it" fascism otherwise. Minnesota served its purpose as proving ground for the tactics and violence they plan to use.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd be a little bit hesitant about that kind of inference. Per the article:

It does not include more than 100 planned ICE locations across many states—including California, New York, and New Jersey—where WIRED has not viewed every specific address.

So there are a whole lot more locations that aren't public yet. It feels more like they're simply trying to take the Minnesota approach national, and levy war on the whole country at once, rather than specifically target elections.

Thank you for pointing this out. I made a small clarification for when anyone sees my comment first, but you're totally right.

The plan is to send ICE agents to polling location and pull up everyone that "looks like an immigrant" WHICH IS PERFECTLY LEGAL TO DO (thanks supreme court) and detain them for "verification", oops, I guess you are a citizen, shame you couldn't vote.

This is also why they are attacking mail-in-ballots because this doesn't work if brown people can vote from home.