ICE is Opening New Offices in Lakewood

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) soon will open offices in a new building in Lakewood.

The agency says the new location will be used by its investigative division, the Homeland Security Investigations section.

The building at 12811 Pacific Highway SW is being remodeled. It will have specialized labs and what the agency calls “communication rooms.”

Citing security concerns, ICE declined to elaborate on what the rooms will be used for, but stated that it will not be a detention facility.

ICE plans to move its investigation division from its current space at 949 Market St. in Tacoma to the Lakewood office in February, 2019.   (Tacoma News Tribune, October 12, 2018)
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Local groups opposed to ICE have described this new facility as a "secret interrogation center". ICE citing security concerns and declining to explain how the "communication rooms" will be used further supports the (paranoid?) claims of some in the community.

The new facility will likely generate protests and demonstrations in Lakewood.

NWDC Resistance has a Facebook page, demanding an ICE Free Zone here.