immigration-issues
Immigrant advocate to Wolf: Veto bill that expands E-Verify to all Pa. construction workers
The legislation was backed by the state's building trade unions, who see it as a way to target unscrupulous contractors who hire undocumented workers for lower pay and in worse working conditions.
How Trump’s appalling treatment of migrants is reviving the Christian Left | Opinion
Christian groups are focusing on immigration because welcoming strangers and caring for the vulnerable are embedded in the Christian tradition.
New Trump administration rule would OK indefinite detention of migrant families in Berks facility
The rule would effectively end the Flores settlement, a landmark 1997 order that established certain standards for family detention centers and a 20-day limit for detaining children.
Donald Trump is in Western Pa.: Tell him you reject his cruel immigration policies | Opinion
The American people are fed up with Trump’s cruel policies that have torn families apart and pitted communities against each other.
We must resolve to end the mistreatment of immigrant children in Pa. – and everywhere | Opinion
The crisis at the Southern Border reaches our doorsteps in Chester County.
‘I’m not condemning anyone:’ Pa. Rep. Scott Perry faces fans, skeptics at town hall
HUMMELSTOWN, Pa — In his first in-person town hall in two years, U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-10th District, answered constituents’ questions on policy and politics for nearly an hour-and-a-half Tuesday night. The conservative congressman, facing voters from a new district redrawn in 2018 to include Dauphin, Cumberland, and York counties, faced a few pointed questions and stern […]
Seeking to raise awareness, spark activism, artist brings Berks detention center documentary on tour
Located in Leesport, just outside Reading, the facility is owned by the county and rented by the federal government to house families awaiting word if they will stay in America or be deported to their country of origin.
ICE ordered her deportation. Instead she’s spent the last year living in a Va. church
Abbie Arevalo-Herrera is one of two women living in Virginia churches to avoid deportation by ICE, which has a policy of not arresting people in locations it deems “sensitive.”
‘We should not allow history to repeat:’ How Pa.’s faithful are speaking up on the border crisis | Monday Morning Coffee
'They are knocking at our door,' one Catholic pastor says. 'Their knocks have gone unanswered.'
Pa.’s Fitzpatrick votes with Dems to condemn Trump’s tweets on Ocasio-Cortez, minority women in Congress
The resolution passed the chamber by a vote of 240-187, with three other Republicans and one independent joining Fitzpatrick their Democratic colleagues in publicly condemning Trump after he suggested that four Democratic congresswomen “go back” to the “places from which they came.”
On the eve of Trump’s immigration raids, protesters call for shutdown of Berks Family Detention Center
For 90 minutes, attendees chanted "Shame" and "Shut Down Berks" in both English and Spanish; sang songs, and heard stories of people who had been held in the detention center -- either separated or with their children.
Nineteen Pa. counties are actively collaborating with ICE to deport immigrants in local custody, new report finds
Pennsylvania's county governments are "systematically cooperating" with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to deport undocumented immigrants who end up in local police custody.