{"id":118266,"date":"2026-02-19T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:22:05","slug":"upper-darby-council-limits-local-collaboration-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118266\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby Council limits local collaboration with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Upper Darby Township Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to approve a resolution limiting local law enforcement\u2019s collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/evocloud-prod3-public.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/meetings\/53\/resolution\/2894.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resolution states<\/a> that the township\u2019s police department will not enter into the 287(g) program with ICE, and that local law enforcement will not \u201cenable ICE-related civil law enforcement.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of Upper Darby residents are foreign-born, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/upperdarbytownshipdelawarecountypennsylvania\/PST045224\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to U.S. Census data<\/a>. Council President Marion Minick said that many of the township\u2019s immigrant residents are affected by <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-ice-agreements-287-suburbs-new-jersey-delaware\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement crackdown<\/a>.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir fear is real. Their trauma is real,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would be troubling enough if the local gang were terrorizing our neighborhoods, but in this case, it is our own federal government creating this climate of fear, and in my view, that makes the harm deeper, more personal and far more damaging.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Several speakers took to the floor during the public comment section, criticizing the resolution and questioning its impact on public safety. Some supported the measure but said they wished it offered stronger protection for immigrant communities.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2443,5202,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-118266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-ice","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118266","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=118266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}