{"id":46709,"date":"2026-02-15T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=46709"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:23:26","slug":"amid-secretive-expansion-leaked-docs-reveal-locations-of-new-ice-facilities-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/amid-secretive-expansion-leaked-docs-reveal-locations-of-new-ice-facilities-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Secretive Expansion, Leaked Docs Reveal Locations of New ICE Facilities Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hundreds protest against shootings by immigration agents in Los Angeles, California on January 10, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo by Genaro Molina\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many new facilities will be located near schools, hospitals, and places of worship such as churches and mosques.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Brad Reed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 10, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaked documents obtained by Wired<\/em> show that federal immigration<\/a> enforcement operations in the US appear set to expand even more significantly in the coming years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, Wired<\/em> reported<\/a> on Tuesday, the US Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS)\u2014which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> (ICE)\u2014has been aggressively expanding its footprint across the country, with \u201cmore than 150 leases and office expansions\u201d that \u201chave or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country\u2019s largest metropolitan areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many of these new facilities are near sensitive locations that ICE has targeted in its immigrant abduction campaigns, including schools, hospitals, and places of worship such as churches and mosques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, records show ICE is planning to occupy an office building just blocks away from a preschool in Houston, Texas<\/a>, and to move into offices in Irvine, California located near a childcare facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To speed up this rapid expansion, DHS has been leaning on the Government Services Administration to write off standard lease procurement procedures and to even conceal lease listings in the name of \u201cnational security concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken as a whole, Wired<\/em> found that \u201cICE agents and officers will share buildings with doctors, restaurants, and businesses,\u201d and will \u201cexpand existing offices and move in with unrelated government agencies,\u201d such as in Philadelphia<\/a>, where they are set to share space with the local Division of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe leasing plans give a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere,\u201d the report concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leaked plans about ICE\u2019s aggressive expansion come as immigrants being held in ICE detention centers give disturbing accounts of conditions at facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seamus Culleton, an Irish citizen who has been held at a Texas ICE detention center for five months despite having a valid US work permit and no criminal record, told<\/a> Ireland\u2019s RT\u00c9<\/em> that the facility is akin to a \u201cmodern-day concentration camp.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bunch of temporary tents,\u201d he explained. \u201cThere\u2019s a room for, probably, a thousand detainees in each tent… I\u2019ve been locked in the same room now for four-and-a-half months. I\u2019ve had barely any outside time, no fresh air, no sunshine. I can probably count on both hands the number of times I\u2019ve been outside. So I\u2019m just locked inside this room all day, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culleton also said that the facilities were \u201cfilthy,\u201d with toilets and showers being \u201ccompletely nasty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seamus Culleton, an Irishman with a valid US work permit, has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it \u201ca modern day concentration camp\u201d (Video: @RTERadio1<\/a>) pic.twitter.com\/p4nJJwuoXL<\/a><\/p>— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) February 10, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>