ICE seeks ‘coworking space’ in workplaces throughout almost 100 U.S. cities | EUROtoday

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is placing out feelers about renting “coworking space” in 42 states and Puerto Rico, with ICE workers organising store in every for a yr, in keeping with federal procurement paperwork reviewed by The Independent.

A request for data issued March 20 by the Department of Homeland Security – ICE’s father or mother entity – seeks particulars on acquiring “flexible workspace (private offices and/or workstations) for assigned ICE personnel at approved coworking locations.”

There are almost 100 cities on the record, from New York City to Seattle to Casper, Wyoming to Hot Springs, South Dakota.

The “coworking sites and initial workspace allocations” might want to accommodate greater than 300 ICE workers in 99 separate locales, in keeping with the RFI. It says the areas should present Wi-Fi entry and “printing privileges,” and that the leases will run 12 months, to start when a contract is awarded by ICE’s Washington Office of Mission Support.

It is unclear why ICE specified it desires “coworking” house, and if the company could be keen to share house in a standard coworking setup. An October 2025 tender issued by ICE sought “as-is, fully-finished and furnished office space,” and mentioned it will not “consider collocation with agencies or tenants whose primary clientele or operations could present security, operational, or reputational conflicts with law enforcement functions.”

ICE didn’t reply on Monday to a request for remark.

As ICE’s bodily footprint has ballooned beneath President Donald Trump, locals have overwhelmingly declared the deep-pocketed deportation company unwelcome of their communities.

In many situations, the services are situated close to elementary colleges, medical doctors’ workplaces, homes of worship, and “other sensitive locations,” in keeping with a Wired investigation printed final month. The outlet described a “secret campaign” being carried out by ICE and DHS to position street-level brokers and ICE attorneys in workplace areas throughout the U.S., usually with out advance warning.

Last month, in-person lessons at a school in suburban Chicago have been halted and moved on-line after faculty directors turned conscious of an “ICE presence” in the identical constructing the place it presents enterprise and nursing instruction, ABC7 reported. Lewis University Provost Christopher Sindt informed the outlet he first realized ICE had moved in due to social media.

“Most notably, this weekend, there were many SUV vehicles parked on the campus or in the parking structure for the campus,” Sindt mentioned. “… We felt like it was a really volatile, potentially volatile environment this week for our students to attend class.”

Also final month, after ICE was found to have rented house in a Berwyn, Pennsylvania, workplace park a few mile away from an elementary faculty, state Rep. Melissa Shusterman issued a press release lamenting the truth that she had “limited legislative options to bring ICE under control.”

“But, I am also a citizen who will not stand for my communities and neighbors being put in danger,” Shusterman mentioned. “We will not stand by idly as families are traumatized. We will not be silent. We will insist on law and order and stand with our local and state police who live in the communities they serve.”

Similarly, native officers in New Windsor, New York mentioned that they had no concept that ICE had been working “for months” out of a leased workplace house of their city, in keeping with the Middletown Times Herald-Record. The constructing homes a department of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, public information present.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY), a fight veteran who graduated from West Point, pushed again firmly towards ICE posting up in New Windsor, gathering 20,000 signatures in opposition.

“The Administration continues to escalate directly against the will of the people of the Hudson Valley, who strongly reject ICE’s dangerous, unconstitutional, un-American attempts to move into our community, terrorize our neighbors, and make us all less safe,” Ryan mentioned in a press release launched February 11. “Especially after what we’ve seen in Minnesota – the surge of agents killing civilians, detaining children, and breaking into people’s homes, we should all be concerned about their repeated attempts to move into our community… The power to keep ICE out is in our hands – and I won’t give up this fight.”

According to the most recent ICE procurement information, responses from distributors to supply ICE co-working areas are due March 31.

The coworking areas are anticipated to be situated in: Alabama (Huntsville, Montgomery); Arizona (Concho, Pima, Casa Grande, Chandler, Eloy, Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sierra Vista, Tucson); California (San Diego, Long Beach, Morgan Hill, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Ana, Rocklin); Colorado (Colorado Springs); Connecticut (Hartford); Delaware (Wilmington); Florida (Bradenton, Ft. Myers, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Niceville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Sarasota, Tampa, West Palm Beach); Georgia (Atlanta, East Point, Leesburg); Hawaii (Honolulu); Illinois (Chicago, Rock Island); Indiana (Indianapolis); Kansas (Manhattan, Kansas City); Kentucky (Louisville); Louisiana (Baton Rouge); Massachusetts (Boston, Burlington); Maryland (Baltimore, Frederick); Maine (Portland, Scarborough, Caribou); Michigan (Grand Rapids); Minnesota (Fort Snelling); Missouri (Kansas City, St Louis); Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Vicksburg, Gulfport); Montana (Savage); North Carolina (Cary, Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh); New Hampshire (Manchester); Nebraska (Omaha); New Jersey (Mt. Laurel); New York (New York City); Ohio (Brooklyn Heights, Westerville); Oregon (Portland, Roseburg); Pennsylvania (Allentown, Altoona); Puerto Rico (San Juan); Rhode Island (Crawford); South Carolina (Summerville, Columbia); South Dakota (Hot Springs, Mitchell); Tennessee (Knoxville, Nashville); Texas (Austin, Bryan, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, Cibolo); Utah (West Valley City); Virginia (Norfolk, North Chesterfield); Vermont (Derby, Williston); Washington (Seattle); Wisconsin (Maynes); West Virginia (Martinsburg, Milton); Wyoming (Casper).