Noem says Trump admin buying Chicago property for ICE

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

10/10/25 8:40 PM ET


Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said the Trump administration will buy more buildings in Chicago for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.

During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Noem said more buildings were purchased “to operate out of.” “We’re purchasing more buildings in Chicago to operate out of,” Noem said to President Trump during the meeting. “We’re going to not back off. In fact, we’re doubling down and we’re going to be in more parts of Chicago in response to the people there.”

“I was there a few days ago and looked at some facilities that we can deploy more law enforcement out of,” Noem said. “Because what they’re trying to do with these riots and violence is distract us and keep us from going after those murderers and rapists that are out on the streets.”

While Noem did not specify which buildings will be bought by the administration, she told ICE officials and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents at the immigration processing facility in Broadview, Ill., on Friday, “We’re going to try to buy that building today,” while pointing at a building nearby, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Hill has reached out to DHS for comment.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5550485-noem-chicago-buildings-ice-dhs/

[Walleye]

1. I don't know if they really think the streets are full of murders and rapist or if they just say that

Because they are operating on belief of some pretty wild conspiracy theories

[Bayard]

20. They know full well they're lying

ICE is the only group being violent.

This goes along with another thread saying they can go after anyone around a federal building. If they buy enough buildings, they can arrest people in a pretty wide area.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3545555

[WSHazel]

2. Why is the government buying buildings?

That makes no sense.

[2naSalit]

4. Perhaps because...

Nobody will rent to them.

[riversedge]

18. It is because NOEM plans on ICE being in cities a LONG time........This is not a month or two event.

[Walleye]

21. We are living in "A Clockwork Orange"

[bluestarone]

11. Well, only thing i can think of is

They are in this for the long haul folks. Their plan for us is NOT good!! They do it in Chicago first, then spread.

[Marie Marie]

22. Oooh Oooh I know. I know!!!!

So that Kristi Numbface can have access to a bathroom when she has to make a doo doo. She will never again be inconvenienced by Gov Pritzker.

[DBoon]

29. They want something like this in major cities

.webp

That's the ruins of the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin

[slightlv]

32. I'd question why people would sell them to ICE, or anybody

representing this malicious government. But I guess if you're rich enough to own a building that trump and the rest of the evil salivate to buy, for whatever reason, then you're probably one of them anyway... and just want the money. Democracy, humanity, ethics be damned.

Money is the root of all evil. And until we can find a way to rein in people's greed I fear we'll always be at the mercy of Evil.

[bluedigger]

3. And so, somewhere, a government real estate agent has been deemed essential,

and recalled to work.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. GSA... and they were about to undergo "mass layoffs" but then...

GSA walks back mass layoffs of its federal buildings workforce

Buildings Service faced the brunt of GSA's widespread layoffs, amid plans to drastically shrink its real estate portfolio.


Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED
September 22, 2025 11:06 am


The General Services Administration is looking to reinstate hundreds of laid-off employees who managed its governmentwide real estate portfolio. GSA’s Public Buildings Service is giving laid-off employees the option to return to their jobs, after sending them reduction-in-force notices earlier this year.

“This serves as an update to your previously issued notice of reduction in force. Your specific notice of Reduction in Force (RIF) has been rescinded, effective immediately,” acting PBS Commissioner Andrew Heller wrote in a notice obtained by Federal News Network.

GSA is giving PBS employees until the end of the day on Friday, Sept. 26, to accept or decline reinstatement. If employees accept the offer, they must report to their previous posts by Oct. 6.

A GSA employee told Federal News Network that PBS is planning to reinstate nearly 400 employees who received RIF notices. “Your decision of whether to accept or decline a return to duty is completely voluntary,” Heller wrote in the notice.

(snip)

The complete cluelessnes by this administration's lackeys about how the government has evolved into what it has, is truly breathtaking, and having handed over "personnel" functions to the "illegal alien Muskrat" to chainsaw it into pieces, has been a tragic exclamation point for their idiocy.

[Irish_Dem]

5. No limits on how much money will be spent on the ICE Gestapo.

While there is no money for science, education, healthcare, SS, Medicare, etc.

[slightlv]

33. So true, Irish_Dem!

20 billion for Venz, but no money to feed the children of our own country. Money to buy buildings to house and train government terrorists, but no money to rein in the gun violence. Money to use the National Guard of one state to invade another state for no reason at all except paranoid fever dreams and inducing terror in the state's population.

Then I agree with those states who are withholding federal taxes from the federal government. I don't want MY taxes going to pay for any piece of what's being done in my name. I want neither my name nor my money associated with anything this government is doing. I support the withdrawal and withholding of any and all federal monies from the federal government... just like the federal government is withholding and withdrawing money already allocated for the people for their mutual welfare.

[Irish_Dem]

34. Yes I hate the idea of funding Trump's evil empire.

He should be in prison, not running the free world.

[Buddyzbuddy]

7. Is this because somebody whose name rhymes with sh*tty

may have bowel issues and nobody will let her soil their premises?

[ancianita]

9. She says. But there also might not be any sellers. Chicago already has several federal buildings

-- the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, and the William O. Lipinski Federal Building. These buildings are part of the larger Chicago Federal Center and house various government agencies and courts. She can park her goons in one of those buildings instead of wasting taxpayer dollars to get some new building ( and probably have it named after her).

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Plus non-government-owned GSA-leased space in Chicago is exhorbitant

I know my agency had a District and Regional office there and the District office had to move at some point in the past due to the per square foot cost.

It sounds like they are trying to "hide" their operations by refusing to use existing GSA space in what would normally be a "public" (government-owned or standalone government-leased) building. I would not be surprised if they try to buy some warehouse to convert into office space and detention facilities, so they can barricade themselves in it.

[ancianita]

19. Probably. Because privatizing this country and govt is the goal, so no oversight or accountability under law.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. That is a bullshit title. OUR tax money is buying property in Chicago for the ICEtapo.

[Bengus81]

14. Yeah...it came from The Hill. That's all you get out of them.

[Vinca]

12. Trump isn't buying it, we're buying it. And after we get him out of there, we can turn it into housing.

Affordable housing. No gold toilets.

[azureblue]

15. She lies

Of course. And what good Chicagoan would sell to ICE, anyway? Even more, if they did buy a building, then there are all sorts of codes and inspections that must be met before they even move in. And that could take years to get approval..

[Abstractartist]

16. I hope

I hope she and all her fucking cohorts get what’s coming to them.

[live love laugh]

17. What riots and violence?

[Bristlecone]

27. Their actions are designed to instigate them

They will push and push until citizens push back hard, then they will go on an all out media blitz to justify their cause.

[Ilsa]

23. Time to put dead critters in the vents and

live cockroaches everywhere else.

[Figarosmom]

24. I wonder if any will refuse to sell? ....nt

[Retrograde]

25. Where's the money coming from?

I thought the government was shut down because the House and Senate could not agree on a funding bill

[Diamond_Dog]

26. There's always money for Kristi's Goons to "fight" criminals in their made-up fantasy land.

While regular folks struggle to buy food and pay their bills. Of course 99% of what she blabbers to the press is a lie, anyway. I hope she and a bunch of others end up on trial in The Hague.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. So she's still hallucinating. Cool.

[greatauntoftriplets]

30. My hunch is that they want buildings in the neighborhoods, not downtown.

Downtown buildings are expensive, and most are multi-tenant. I'm not sure that ICE would want their neighbors down the hall privy in even the smallest way to their.

Smaller buildings in neighborhoods and suburbs offer more privacy, are more suited to single users, and are lots cheaper than downtown commercial real estate. The smaller buildings exist everywhere, many are currently vacant, and they tend to be easier to secure. They don't need Class A space to store their weapons; a drive-in door to garage space would be useful to house their vehicles.

I worked in commercial real estate for 20 years, and this scenario makes sense to me.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

31. More BS From the trump admin. n/t

[Mysterian]

35. "Fiscal conservative" republicans raised the debt ceiling $5 TRILLION

They have money to burn!

[LudwigPastorius]

36. The new ICE building...

Will it have a Room 101 in the basement?