What You Agents Are Doing In Your Hotels (2nd Printing)

A follow-up to Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? - this time speculating on what CBP, ICE and other federal agents do at their hotels during their breaks from everyday violence in our cities. 

From the back cover:

Most of this text was written while staying at a hotel near the Milwaukee airport for a two-night self-initiated artist residency in late January 2026. In the days and weeks leading up to this residency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents murdered two people in Minneapolis (Renée Good and Alex Pretti) and there was online speculation that agents might go to Milwaukee next. A rumor started that ICE booked a hundred rooms at the Hilton in downtown Milwaukee but this turned out to be untrue. I stayed at a different chain, about five miles south of that hotel. 

Still, I thought about what CBP and ICE and DHS might do in their hotel rooms after a long hard day of being violent pieces of shit in different cities. I explored the hotel I was staying in from various angles, noting signs and policies and details. I put myself in the place of the agents. From the comfort of my room and my [No] King(s) size bed, I worked on this text, imagining life as a CBP agent, staying in the same hotel as me in the middle of the week. When I got stuck writing, I posted a prompt to followers on Bluesky and they collectively generated many more short answers, which I have mixed with my own writing, edited, and shaped into this publication. 

This booklet is a follow-up to Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? which is Public Collectors publication 97. That was first printed in June 2025. Like with that booklet, I’ve hand date-stamped the covers of this publication so that each printing can be a record that we are still living with these Federal agencies and their violence.