Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents set up a transport operation in an empty parking lot at the Tuscany Crossing Business Park in Northeast Austin.
The lot was empty and out of view from nearby roads, but as the agents’ work continued on the large industrial property, protesters gathered and filmed what they saw. ICE agents and workers for G4S, a subsidiary of Allied Universal, which provides ground transportation security services for the government, were moving detainees into a large white bus.
By about 10 a.m. on Oct. 21, ICE left the property, located at 2227 Ambition Way, after staging there for multiple days — and after the agents’ activity attracted more attention from neighbors and community activists…