Naturally, if you're going to start sprouting up concentration camps all over the country, while mass arresting more migrants and your political opponents to fill them, you're going to need Gestapo forces and administrators all over the United States of America too; and the buildings to house them. So I guess you won't be shocked to learn that the Trump administration, DHS, and ICE are currently going about acquiring space all over the country to do just that, right?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-dhs-expansion-plans

Amid Secretive Expansion, Leaked Docs Reveal Locations of New ICE Facilities Nationwide

"Overall, Wired reported on Tuesday, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—has been aggressively expanding its footprint across the country, with “more than 150 leases and office expansions” that “have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas.”

Quite frankly, I could have put this store in our "DHS is doing ethnic cleansing" thread, because as the article goes on to note, these new ICE facilities are being embedded directly in major metropolitan areas, and next to locations the Gestapo is already targeting - like schools, mosques, and hospitals or childcare facilities. As the author of the original Wired report noted:

“The leasing plans give a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere,” the report concluded."

I chose to put it here in the concentration camp thread however, because I think when taken together with ICE's plans to build a nation-wide gulag system for migrants and dissenters they call "terrorists," a very clear picture of how exactly the Trumpenreich fascist dictatorship will be created is emerging. A while back I wrote an article on NIDC predicting that the massive DHS and ICE funding in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill would facilitate the transformation of those agencies from Trump's Gestapo, into his Schutzstaffel, or SS because the militarization of these forces would allow the Swine Emperor to effectively occupy the United States militarily under a semi-permanent state of martial law.

(You can find that article here, if you care: https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/28/a-schutzstaffel-of-his-own/ )

Taken together, this massive influx of funding to build concentration camps all around the country, combined with ICE's intention to embed itself directly in our urban areas nationwide, sure do look an awful lot like a permanent fascist military occupation of America to me.

#ICE #DHS #Gestapo #MartialLaw #Trump #PorkReich #Schutzstaffel #MilitaryOccupation #OccupiedAmerica #GOP #USPol

Amid Secretive Expansion, Leaked Docs Reveal Locations of New ICE Facilities Nationwide | Common Dreams

Leaked documents reveal aggressive expansion plans for ICE in the US, targeting sensitive locations. Immigrants in detention centers report disturbing conditions.

Common Dreams

"As someone who has spent a significant amount of time in the West Bank of Palestine, I know an occupation when I see one—and what is happening in Minnesota right now is an occupation."

~ Ariel Gold

#Trump #Minnesota #ICE #DHS #CBP #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #TomHoman #MilitaryOccupation #Gaza

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupied-minnesota-west-bank/

Via #RawStory @ 9:50pm EST on Jan 6, 2026

#Trump has once again rampd up his threats 2 acquire territory o #Greenland frm #Denmark, not even ruling out potential #MilitaryOccupation o the island. But @ least 4 now, key #Republican figures don't appear 2 B willing 2 back him on this
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“It’s none of our business. We’re not going 2 take over anothr country. That's our ally," sed Sen #JerryMoran (R-KS) in convo w/ #HuffPost reportr #IgorBobic. "Also the demise of #NATO"

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-greenland-2674854740/

Republicans cry foul over Trump's Greenland threats: 'That's our ally!'

President Donald Trump has once again ramped up his threats to acquire the territory of Greenland from Denmark, not even ruling out potential military occupation of the island. But at least for now, key Republican figures don't appear to be willing to back him on this. U.S. interest in acquiring Gre...

Raw Story

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/29/murder/

How soon we forget that the entire reason why Trump invaded DC is that Ed “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the DOGE boys hired by the richest man in the world to snoop through the private heath and social security data of Americans, got beat up by unarmed teenagers?

#doge #RahmanullahLakanwal #NationalGuard #MilitaryOccupation #maga #trump #blowback

Murder - emptywheel

We don't know why Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly targeted two members of West Virginia's National Guard, just like we don't know the real reason Pete Hegseth keeps targeting boats for murder in the Caribbean. We do know that Hegseth more obviously failed the vetting to prevent such tragedies.

emptywheel

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/what-to-know-dc-national-guard-shooting-rahmanullah-lakanwal-rcna246154

The shooting happened at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday near the Farragut Square Metro Station in the area of 17th and High streets NW, just a few minutes’ walk from the White House.

At the time, National Guard members were on “high visibility patrols,” said Jeff Carroll, executive assistant chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.

The two National Guard members were "ambushed" by a person who "came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm and discharged at the National Guard members," Carroll said at a news conference.

#MAGA #nationalGuard #MilitaryOccupation #blowback #RahmanullahLakanwal

What we know about the Washington, D.C., shooting of two National Guard members

Two National Guard members were shot in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon, just one day before Thanksgiving, in what officials described as a "targeted" attack

NBC News
I am proud to announce the publication of the article I wrote (in English) with the Latvian historian Klāvs Zariņš on the German secret police and security policy in the occupied Baltic countries (under the Ober Ost occupation regime) during the First World War.
https://www.karamuzejs.lv/lkm/muzeja-xxi-gadagramata
#FirstWorldWar #Latvia #Lithuania #secretpolice #militaryoccupation #WW1
MUZEJA XXI GADAGRĀMATA | Latvijas Kara muzejs

Meanwhile, it's that time of year again
"While olive groves are located under Area B of the West Bank, which, under the terms of the Oslo Accords, does not require Palestinians to coordinate with the Israeli army, the area was declared a closed military zone."
#WestBank #Israelexpansionism #militaryoccupation #Palestine

https://aje.io/svxyzz

Israeli army, settlers target Palestinian olive harvesters in West Bank

Attacks on Palestinians have intensified during the harvesting season as Israel pushes measures to annex the territory.

Al Jazeera

National Guard members train for civil unrest missions in U.S. cities - The Washington Post

“We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are troubled,” Trump told assembled service members in Japan on Tuesday. “And we’re sending in our National Guard, and if we need more than the National Guard, we’ll send more than the National Guard, because we’re going to have safe cities.”

Trump later told reporters: “The courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved. And I could send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. I could send anybody I wanted.”

#MAGA #fascism #Trump #nationalGuard #MilitaryOccupation #libertarian #bootlickers #colonialism #theSurround #USPOL #pdx #Portland #chicago #LosAngeles #PortlandOregon #empire #classwar

Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens

The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard is being readied for civil unrest missions in U.S. cities.

The Washington Post

"We should expect military occupations to spread across all major cities in the U.S. over the coming months and years. Temporary deployments will give way to a permanent, localized occupation force in charge of brutalizing the “minority” nations."

https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2025-10-14-dc-occupation/

#USOccupation #DCOccupation #MilitaryOccupation #NationalGuard

DC Occupation: Coming to Your City Next – The Red Clarion

Trump blasts judge who blocked Portland troop deployment, saying she ‘ought to be ashamed of himself’

"she ‘ought to be ashamed of himself’"

direct quotes can be pretty brutal when you're a wannabe dictator who also happens to be an abject moron

#pdx #Portland #orpol #USpol #MAGA #militaryoccupation #NationalGuard #immergut #fascism #dictatorship

Trump blasts judge who blocked Portland troop deployment, saying she ‘ought to be ashamed of himself’

Trump nominated U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut in 2018.

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