{"id":108879,"date":"2026-02-09T05:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108879\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:58:09","slug":"u-s-senator-john-fetterman-seeks-dhs-answers-on-new-ice-facilities-impact-in-schuylkill-and-berks-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108879\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator John Fetterman seeks DHS answers on new ICE facilities&#8217; impact in Schuylkill and Berks Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Fetterman questions DHS&#8217;s plans for $200M ICE facilities in PA.<\/p>\n<p>TREMONT, Pa. \u2014 U.S. Senator John Fetterman is requesting more information from the Department of Homeland Security regarding two ICE facilities purchased in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/schuylkill-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Schuylkill<\/a> and Berks Counties.<\/p>\n<p>The DHS bought the Big Lots warehouse in Tremont Township, planning to turn it into an immigration enforcement processing center.<\/p>\n<p>They also purchased a warehouse in Berks County for the same purpose, totaling more than 200 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Fetterman addressed a letter to Secretary Kristi Noem expressing concerns that the use of the warehouse would quadruple the township&#8217;s existing public infrastructure burden, and that it could affect the quality of life for residents.<\/p>\n<p>The facility in Schuylkill County is expected to hold 7,500 detainees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Fetterman questions DHS&#8217;s plans for $200M ICE facilities in PA. TREMONT, Pa. \u2014 U.S. Senator John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-108879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}