{"id":113852,"date":"2026-02-14T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113852\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:21:06","slug":"homeland-securitys-purchase-of-berks-county-warehouse-is-an-ominous-sign-letter-letters-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113852\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security\u2019s purchase of Berks County warehouse is an ominous sign [letter] | Letters To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a prelude to my prediction of planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Lancaster County and the surrounding areas, President Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Homeland Security has purchased a large warehouse in Berks County for $87 million to detain our friends, co-workers and neighbors who, in most cases, have done nothing seriously wrong other than having been born with the wrong color skin.<\/p>\n<p>I predict they will be terrorized and rounded up like animals by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem\u2019s masked thugs. In the process, there will be a risk of killings like the death of Renee Good.<\/p>\n<p>How can Republicans who call themselves Christians not call out this administration\u2019s treatment of other human beings?<\/p>\n<p>For those who ever wondered how the German people looked the other way during the Holocaust, I believe that we are living through the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Chapman<\/p>\n<p>West Hempfield Township<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a prelude to my prediction of planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Lancaster County and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54346,2443,741,128,130,129,20354],"class_list":{"0":"post-113852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berk-county","9":"tag-ice","10":"tag-immigration","11":"tag-reading-city","12":"tag-reading-city-headlines","13":"tag-reading-city-news","14":"tag-warehouse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113852","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=113852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}