Internal emails reveal tensions over Berks ICE detention plan

Emails detail how Berks County leaders worked behind the scenes after detention center surprise

Emails obtained by Spotlight PA show behind-the-scenes divisions among the region’s officials over ICE’s warehouse purchase.

Internal emails reveal tensions over Berks ICE detention plan

READING — On Feb. 2 of this year, Fred Sheeler had urgent news to share with Berks County’s three commissioners and district attorney. “We just recorded a deed for one of the new large warehouses,” Sheeler, the elected official in charge of maintaining real estate records, said in an email. He included the address of a 520,000-square-foot facility in Upper Bern Township that had been vacant for years. “The purchaser is The United States Of Ameri…

Emails detail how leaders in one Pa. county worked behind the scenes after ICE detention center surprise

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