{"id":117460,"date":"2026-02-18T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:38:07","slug":"how-much-do-you-know-about-ice-in-pennsylvania-take-our-news-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117460\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do you know about ICE in Pennsylvania?: Take our news quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

PA Politics<\/a>Published: Feb. 18, 2026, 4:03 p.m.<\/p>\n

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been making arrests and purchases in central Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has recently finalized the purchase<\/a> of two warehouses. That concerns Gov. Josh Shapiro, who sent a letter about it to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> last week. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ICE operations across the state have surged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Are you up on the latest about ICE? Take our news quiz:<\/p>\n

Working with ICE<\/p>\n

Dozens of local Pennsylvania law enforcement agencies have agreements in place with ICE<\/a>. Agencies that work with ICE under any of its models are eligible for federal payments through a Department of Justice program.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania doesn\u2019t have a law prohibiting local law enforcement agencies from working with ICE, although multiple state representatives have agreed to co-sponsor a bill<\/a> that would limit certain agreements.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State Police have an internal policy<\/a> that limits cooperation with ICE. <\/p>\n

I started at The Patriot-News in 2000 as a copyeditor and became PennLive’s first online editor years later. Today, I oversee 17 newsletters, write headlines, manage content, work in social media and train… more<\/p>\n

This article was produced with assistance from AI tools and reviewed by PennLive.com staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA PoliticsPublished: Feb. 18, 2026, 4:03 p.m. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been making arrests and purchases in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-117460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117460","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=117460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}