{"id":131083,"date":"2026-03-06T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131083\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:50:14","slug":"montgomery-county-blocks-ice-agents-from-using-their-property-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131083\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County blocks ICE agents from using their property \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Pennsylvania county is taking more steps to limit its cooperation with immigration agents. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, March 5, Montgomery County Commissioners passed a resolution that prohibits ICE from using county-owned property or resources in civil immigration operations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a new layer\u00a0of policy to prevent an\u00a0unwanted federal invasion\u00a0on something\u00a0that we can control: our facilities are off-limits,&#8221; Chair of the Board of Commissioners Jamila Winder said. \u201cFor me,\u00a0this is about right and wrong, and how we treat each other as humans.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0proud to support this resolution.\u00a0We\u2019ve\u00a0taken a lot of care in thinking\u00a0through\u00a0how we stand up for\u00a0all\u00a0of\u00a0our residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the resolution, ICE agents cannot use Montgomery County-owned parking lots, vacant lots or garages for any stage of an operation, including staging, processing or making an operations base.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also codifies a measure that says county employees will not comply in immigration operations without a judicial warrant or subpoena. <\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerycountypa.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/53893\/Private-Area-Sign_FINAL\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerycountypa.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/53893\/Private-Area-Sign_FINAL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">made signs that private property owners are allowed to display<\/a> if they want to restrict ICE agents from non-public areas they own.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also said the resolution doesn&#8217;t restrict or interfere with the execution of lawful judicial warrants or the enforcement of criminal law. <\/p>\n<p>You can read the full resolution below: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Pennsylvania county is taking more steps to limit its cooperation with immigration agents. On Thursday, March 5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[200,28,69,71,70,723],"class_list":["post-131083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131083","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=131083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}