ICE Releases Hundreds of its Detention Subfield Office Addresses and Phone Numbers, Following Court Order

 ICE, We Know Where to Find You! 
Release from Deportation Research Clinic, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University

 Chicago Sample List from 1,250 Rows of ICE Subfield Offices Nationwide  
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Chicago Sample List of ICE Addresses and Phone Numbers 

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Backstory
In 2009, I encountered an ICE report indicating that ICE had 186 "subfield offices," meaning locations with holding cells designed for 24 hours or less.  I filed a request of ICE requesting a list of their locations.  
 

When I received the list, I was stunned to learn that one of the locations was in the Chelsea Market, a couple blocks from my apartment.  The Chelsea Market is a tourist scene, not to mention home to the Food Network and other glam enterprises.  You can read about my conversation with the guy running the U.S. Marshal operation and coordinating on the third floor with ICE's Fugitive Operations in The Nation, "America's Secret ICE Castles."  The guy in charge  did not appreciate my pointing out that he was using Rachel Ray as a human shield and asked me not to reveal their operations, a request I turned down.  Here's a link to the list and story from 2009.  

About ten years later, I was looking at a release of similar list posted on the National Immigrant Justice Center.  Except it was too short and no addresses or phone numbers were included.

ICE's response to my request for the data for the missing fields was an unreadable PDF.  After years of litigation, and a court order from Illinois Northern District Court Judge Mary Rowland, ICE coughed up this list.  The contact information and specification of responsibilities should be helpful to those trying to assist folks ICE is arresting.

 

Many thanks to my FOIA attorney Nicolette Glazer.  The Deportation Research Clinic operates on a miniscule budget and the work of intrepid undergraduate research assistants, who draft our complaints and analyze productions.  Thanks to Gabriel Sanchez, Class of 2026, who worked on this litigation and many other cases.  
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