{"id":117035,"date":"2026-02-18T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117035\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:31:07","slug":"no-ice-detention-facility-in-pennsylvania-district-1-congressman-brian-fitzpatrick-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117035\/","title":{"rendered":"No ICE detention facility in Pennsylvania District 1, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick is trying to reassure residents about proposed ICE detention centers in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Republican stated that the Department of Homeland Security and ICE do not plan to open a detention facility in his district, which covers Bucks County and parts of Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fitzpatrick said he reached out to DHS after hearing from concerned residents and would oppose the opening of any facility in his district.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A facility is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/ice-purchases-87m-warehouse-berks-143634380.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:planned for neighboring Berks County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planned for neighboring Berks County<\/a> in Upper Bern Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Department of Homeland Security plans to convert a 518,000-square-foot facility there into an ICE detention center, after it was sold for $87.4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick is trying to reassure residents about proposed ICE detention centers in Pennsylvania. The Republican stated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32545,23070,55598,55599,55597,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-117035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-brian-fitzpatrick","9":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","10":"tag-detention-facility","11":"tag-ice-detention-center","12":"tag-ice-detention-centers","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","15":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117035","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=117035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}