In a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro questioned legality of the facilities.
The warehouse at 3501 Mountain Road in Upper Bern Township was purchased by the Trump administration to use as an ICE detention facility.In a Thursday letter to Noem obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Shapiro questioned legality of the facilities, which the governor said could hold up to 9,000 people in total.
Hinting at a possible lawsuit, Shapiro said if DHS goes through with converting the sites his administration will “aggressively pursue every option to prevent these facilities from opening and needlessly harming the good people of Pennsylvania.”across the country to flip into ICE detention centers. ICE is planning to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers, So far, two have been bought in Pennsylvania — a nearly 520,000-square-foot facility in Upper Bern Township and another in Tremont Township, where the purchase has drawn the ire of concerned residents., saying that ICE and other federal immigration agents “resort to unnecessary and excessive force, leading to innocent people being injured or tragically killed.”is reason enough to oppose your plan to use warehouses in Schuylkill and Berks counties as detention centers,” Shapiro wrote, adding that the warehouses would also negatively impact residents’ health and safety, deplete tax revenue and put extra stress on local communities and emergency response. Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, confirmed ICE’s purchase of these two warehouses and the department’s plans to use them as detention facilities in a statement to The Inquirer Friday. She said that the sites will “undergo community impact studies and a rigorous due diligence process to make sure there is no hardship on local utilities or infrastructure prior to purchase” and that the facilities would create economic benefits, including bringing more than 11,000 jobs to the two Pennsylvania communities in total., ICE has new funding to expand detention space to keep these criminals off American streets before they are removed for good from our communities,” McLaughlin said.
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