ICE drops plan to convert 2 Pennsylvania warehouses into detention centers
The agency withdrew its appeal after permit denials over water and wastewater concerns for sites meant to hold thousands of detainees.
- On Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement formally withdrew its appeal of permit denials, abandoning plans to convert two rural Pennsylvania warehouses into detention centers.
- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection had denied essential drinking water and wastewater permits, citing inadequate local infrastructure to support the thousands of inhabitants envisioned by ICE.
- Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, argued the warehouses were unsuitable for detainees, warning that conversion would pose serious health and safety risks to surrounding communities.
- These warehouses were part of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's $38 billion expansion plan, which her successor, Markwayne Mullin, paused following community criticism last month.
- Although ICE confirmed it will not use the properties for detention, the agency has not specified future plans for the sites, which local officials learned of only after acquisitions were made.
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ICE drops plan to convert 2 Pennsylvania warehouses into detention centers
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is giving up on its plan to use two rural Pennsylvania warehouses to hold thousands of people.
ICE confirms it won’t use PA warehouses as detention centers
READING — ICE has informed the Shapiro administration that it will not use two warehouses it purchased in Pennsylvania as detention centers. It did so in two letters sent to the state Department of Environmental Protection earlier this month and released Wednesday by the governor’s office. In March, DEP issued administrative orders barring the federal Department of Human Services from connecting to water or sewer at the warehouses in Upper Bern …
ICE formally withdraws plans to build two Pennsylvania detention centers, Gov. Josh Shapiro says
The decision, which comes amid opposition from the state and from local communities, means the end of efforts to convert warehouses in Berks and Schuylkill Counties.
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