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ICEd Out: Detention center plans meet resistance in PA
In recent months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security spent more than one billion dollars buying nearly a dozen warehouses in several states. The plan is to convert them into immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's mass deportation initiative.
Two are being pursued in rural Pennsylvania: Tremont Township in Schuylkill County, and Upper Bern Township in Berks County. As it stands, infrastructure in the area cannot support an operation of that scale. That reality has essentially opened the door for the state government to stall the project.
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