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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

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  • 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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[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Who the hell are these prisons for?

No effing way there is a need for this much temporary detention of foreigners being deported.

They are buying entire warehouses. These facilities are huge.

This has to be for Americans likely to vote against MAGAts.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I didn't think all the locations listed are for concentration camps. It seems like it's just increased office space.

Concentration camps might be part of it, it they're a separate list.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Those are being built in secret with military funding...

[–] gnuthing@piefed.social 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

BIPOC, LGBT folks, ppl with disability especially mental, ppl with autism, women who've had abortions (including but not limited to miscarriage)

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

How do they expect to find autistic people? They aren’t exactly preaching to their autistic god.

Shit. Is that the point? Anyone can be deemed autistic if they’re undesirable?

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pam Bondi comes out on stage: "We have credible intelligence that antifa and radical muslims and trans terrorists are recruiting autistic people for their terror campaigns as they burn down more American cities. No, you can't see the intel. Trust us bro."

A hyperbolic version of potential events, yes, but they've gotten to this point already by edging the needle across the lines ever-so-slowly, so they will find a way to get people adapted slowly to the idea of seeing everyone who isn't a white, straight, neurotypical christian male as a threat to everything we hold dear.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

That's literally exactly the point

[–] gnuthing@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

HIPAA grants the govt the right to your "protected" health information in certain circumstances. Sec of HHS (RFK) can waive parts of HIPAA during a "public health emergency" https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html

We also already have registries in some states https://www.heartstoneguidancecenter.com/post/the-unsettling-reality-of-mandatory-autism-databases

Most states also allow forced sterilization of ppl w/ disabilities https://nwlc.org/resource/forced-sterilization-of-disabled-people-in-the-united-states/

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Searching medical records for people with diagnosed autism I assume.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I’m not aware of any such repository. Medical records are managed per doctor office, no?

I guess they can check with the IRS. On tax documents when you get a new job, “autism” is one of the qualifying disabilities for “do you or have you ever had a disability.”

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Honestly, if they had their time and power as long as they want it, they will go after interracial marriage after destroying gay marriage.

The gay marriage repeal would cause a lot of uproar but be quickly overshadowed by other chaotic policies and endeavors, and then we will be left with more problems, more people wondering what to do about their new statuses, maybe they will implement some new kind of federally recognized "partnership" so they don't have to face lawsuits from every state, and then work later to actually abolish that as well, then the media cycle will move on and we all get used to a new, worse normal.

Then next they say "We have intelligence that foreign agents and terrorists are using marriage to infiltrate the country, so we are going to need every interracial married couple to register in a database so ICE can review the legal status of your marriage..." and the song goes on.

But I don't think they can pull all this off. They want to, Miller self-pleasures himself every night imagining the despair and anger he would cause, but they are radically overreaching, the pushback against ICE broadly is only going to escalate and they don't have nearly enough resources to do the entire Project 2025 handbook unless they just openly dissolve the government and seize assets but at that point the military would have to step in, because they are wisely sworn to the constitution and not a person. And the biggest reason they likely won't get that far is the USA is fucking huge.

50 states is hard as fuck to manage, that's why we have them, so we can have every state manage its own voting, it's own tax contributions, it's own delegation of representatives, etc. They are going to get creamed in mid-terms and Trump will die before his term is up and they won't be able to hold the pieces together because MAGA is their political capital and they have no CLUE how to hold onto them, like sand through their fingers, it will all slip away rapidly.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

RFK jr. was trying to make a national registry for people with autism, not sure how far that got but I'm pretty sure they can check medicaid records. HIPAA doesn't mean much to this rogue administration...

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Basically, any of those who had badges the last time.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget liberals and non-xtians.

[–] gnuthing@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't they would go after liberals, there's too many Americans who fall into that category and generally liberals help maintain fascism. However, they will probably go after leftists

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

LOL, this is the bunch that equates the Democrat Party (sic) with Communists.

You think they are going to get into all the hair-splitting that the left loves to get into over what the definition of liberalism is?

[–] gnuthing@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Yes, but only because of the history of fascism targeting communists and socialists in the past. They also understand that socialism is the existential threat to them. They understand that liberals are not a threat and that they can't imprison 60+% of the country

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Concentration camps. Death camps. I suspect they've killed people already in the detention centers. Can't prove it, of course, I expect we won't see proof unless the regime falls

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 days ago

There are dozens of well-documented examples. Plus some where they put somebody on life support for deportation.

The question is the scale of killing, to what extent do poor food and sanitation in rhe concentration camps kill, and how often does deporting a healthy person result in their death in the following weeks to months.