US EditionGovernor Tells DHS to Reconsider Plans to Convert Warehouses to ICE Detention Facilities
Gov. Shapiro warns conversion of two warehouses to ICE detention centers would strain infrastructure, risk water safety, and house up to 9,000 people, urging DHS to reconsider.
- On Feb. 12, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro sent a 12-page letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem urging reconsideration of two warehouse conversions into ICE detention centers, citing legal violations and resource concerns.
- Shapiro's office argued the Department of Homeland Security's conversions would violate drinking water, sewage, health, and building codes, and the administration will withhold required state permits if DHS proceeds.
- Technical letters detail that converting the nearly 520,000-square-foot Upper Bern Township warehouse could produce over 14 times permitted wastewater and demand up to 800,000 gallons daily, exceeding local treatment limits.
- The governor wrote, 'the influx of over 9,000 people at your planned facilities, plus staff, will divert vital services and may overwhelm first responders,' while estimating tax losses of nearly $828,000 annually.
- Beyond Pennsylvania, reporting shows ICE is purchasing warehouses nationwide as part of President Donald Trump's deportation agenda, while Shapiro has grown more forceful in recent weeks, facing reelection this year.
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Josh Shapiro tells Kristi Noem he’ll ‘aggressively pursue every option’ to block new ICE detention centers in Pa., in letter to DHS
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Shapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for PA detention centers
HARRISBURG — The Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers if initial reporting about the facilities is accurate. In a letter dated Feb. 12, Gov. Josh Shapiro told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that her department’s record is reason enough to oppose planned ICE facilities in Berks and Schuylkill Counties. “But as described further in t…
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Gov. Josh Shapiro pledges to ‘pursue every option to prevent’ ICE detention centers in Berks, Schuylkill counties
Gov. Josh Shapiro has issued a warning to the federal government about plans to build federal detention centers in Pennsylvania. In a letter sent to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, the Montgomery County Democrat said that if her department presses ahead with plans to convert warehouses in Berks and Schuylkill counties into immigration detention centers his administration will “aggressively pursue every option to prevent thes…
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