They can lease all they want but local jurisdictions have this thing called Zoning Codes (what uses are allowed where) and follow the IBC building Code ( how structures are designed to accommodate specific occupancies[uses]). Local citizen contact your building permitting centers.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Together, the leasing plans give a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere.

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ICE agents and officers will share buildings with doctors, restaurants, and businesses. They’ll expand existing offices and move in with unrelated government agencies—at 801 Arch Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for example, they’ll share space with the DMV.

A number of these locations are already offices occupied by ICE, now slated for expansion. But really, this is just a sampling of the hundreds of lease locations in the process of being awarded to ICE across the US.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

How did this happen? And how did this happen so secretly and swiftly? In docs viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures, and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns.”

In Alexandria, Louisiana, for example, ICE is moving into a building on 1201 3rd Street, located right in the city’s historic downtown center and a 16-minute drive from the Alexandria Staging Facility, where immigrants have been detained, transferred, and then deported.

Other locations appear to be strategically situated near buildings that ICE either currently uses or could use to detain immigrants, like in Maryland, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

These locations are all over the country, in government buildings, in suburban office parks, and right in the middle of cities. Some of them are located right next to elementary schools, medical offices, places of worship, and other sensitive locations.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

There is NOTHING ‘America First’ about selling out some of our most pristine waters so a Chilean mining company can come in, take our minerals, ship them to China for processing, then sell them off.

All while polluting the Boundary Waters in the process.

ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds The 38-year-old hasn’t had his kidney transplant medication since he was detained on Thursday.

#CrueltyIsThePoint
ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds.
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www.theguardian.com Federal judge blocks California from enforcing ICE mask ban

Federal judge blocks California from enforcing ICE mask ban

Jeffrey Epstein paid Les Wexner $100mn after retail billionaire accused him of theft Private settlement sought to avoid ‘unnecessary public attention’, prosecutors’ report said

Epstein paid Les Wexner $100mn after retail billionaire accused him of theft... the payment is essentially an admission that Wexner's charges were correct. www.ft.com/content/72c0...

Immigration courts fast-track hearings for Somali asylum claims Their lawyers fear the notices are merely the first step toward the removal without due process of Somali asylum applicants in the country.

Trump is trying to fast track Somali deportations.

www.npr.org/2026/02/09/n...

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law

I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/

'What's wrong with the world?' Man in wheelchair found dead outside in freezing temps The 61-year-old man had been released from a hospital the day before.

How Texas cares for is most vulnerable (it doesn't, and it's proud of that fact) a 61 year old man is discharged from a hospital in a wheelchair, a hospital gown and no shoes or shocks. He promptly freezes to death. news4sanantonio.com/news/local/w...

Starmer’s Chief of Staff Resigns, Citing Role in Hiring Friend of Epstein

Y'all need to pay attention to what's happening in Europe. They're not messing around. The Epstein scandal is causing heads to roll.

In America, eh, not so much. I wonder why.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...

Manhattan US Attorney Berman's statement on the death of Epstein.

When you google the date of Epstein's death, it says August 10.

But this statement from Manhattan US Attorney Berman says he was notified of Epstein's death on Aug 9.

Here is the DOJ link as well.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Schiff on Gabbard's involvement in Georgia: "All of this is intended to send a message and the message is, 'We will not tolerate or accept an election that we lose.' That's why in these budget discussions we need to make sure, among other things, that we don't have ICE agents at polling places."

JD Vance ridiculed for 40-car motorcade taking him down tiny Italian street The tiny streets of Milan witnessed an unusual parade: JD Vance's 100-car motorcade, a scene that left social media in disbelief.

Vance traveled to the Olympics in Italy with a fleet of 14 planes and a motorcade of 100 vehicles.

11 planes are for staff and 300 security agents.

1 plane is solely for food supplies.

2 are transporting the 100 armored vehicles.

Plus...

The 20 Elections to Watch This February - Bolts Democrats hold the narrowest of majorities in Maine and Pennsylvania’s state Houses. They now need to defend vacant seats to retain their edge in each through the end of the... Read More

GOP failed to flip ANY Dem district in 2025 (Dems flipped a lot), & none in 2026 so far. This was as clear an opening as you can imagine. Big blow to Rs.

This was one of the 20 races I identified as important to watch in February.

Details: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%.

This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

Do you want more details on the race and the stakes?

It’s one of my 20 elections to watch this month. Details here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

This looks to be an extraordinary overperformance for Dems. With more than three-fourth of the vote in, the Dem leads by more than 20%.

Early returns in Louisiana’s special election:

The Dem candidate is leading 58.5% to 41.5%. That’s with a third of the vote in.

Context: this is a Dem-held seat but in a district TRUMP carried by 13%, so has been a big/obvious GOP target. Stay tuned.

NEWS: Democrat Chasity Martinez has won the Louisiana HD-60 special election, defeating Republican Brad Daigle and holding the seat.

Martinez won 63%–37%. Trump carried the district by 13 points in 2024.

Another major Democratic overperformance.

Breaking: Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup Republicans have yet to flip a single legislative seat since Trump's return

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas.

Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points.

Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->

25 vulnerable House Republicans just voted to increase your premiums by up to 800%. Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives finally voted on a clean, 3-year extension of the enhanced ACA tax credits which had been in place for the prior five years, and which over 22 million Amer...

I should also note that 25 U.S. House Republicans whose districts are less than R+15 voted to raise health insurance premiums by up to 800% or more.

acasignups.net/26/01/09/25-...

I'm in Mexico City. Art Week is going on, and there are people here from all over the world.

But no one is talking about art.

Everyone is talking about Trump and Epstein.

Everyone.