Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Department of Homeland Security is appealing Pennsylvania’s decision to block the construction of detention centers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Berks and Schuylkill counties. ICE outlines argument in appealThe appeal, filed with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Hearing Board, outlines ICE’s plans to use water and sewage systems from when the two sites were originally used as warehouses. An ICE attorney said, “The orders unreasonably interfere with and encroach upon a federal law enforcement agency’s ability to fulfill its responsibilities of enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.” State cites infrastructure concernsThe state issued the order due to concerns about a lack of infrastructure for ICE’s planned expanded use of the sites. Construction remains on holdConstruction at the warehouses in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, and Upper Bern Township, Berks County, near the Lebanon County line, remains stalled as the appeal process continues.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security is appealing Pennsylvania’s decision to block the construction of detention centers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Berks and Schuylkill counties. <\/p>\n
ICE outlines argument in appeal<\/p>\n
The appeal, filed with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Hearing Board, outlines ICE’s plans to use water and sewage systems from when the two sites were originally used as warehouses. <\/p>\n
An ICE attorney said, “The orders unreasonably interfere with and encroach upon a federal law enforcement agency’s ability to fulfill its responsibilities of enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.” <\/p>\n
State cites infrastructure concerns<\/p>\n
The state issued the order due to concerns about a lack of infrastructure for ICE’s planned expanded use of the sites. <\/p>\n
Construction remains on hold<\/p>\n
Construction at the warehouses in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, and Upper Bern Township, Berks County, near the Lebanon County line, remains stalled as the appeal process continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WE\u2019LL HAVE MORE ON THAT COMING UP IN OUR NEXT HALF HOUR. NEWS EIGHT AT FIVE NEW TONIGHT,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3956,279,349,73528,53,48224,15649,23070,48930,4613,2443,55599,741,5202,73529,4043,28,30,29,231,5691,45560,12264,20354],"class_list":{"0":"post-162797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-appeal","9":"tag-berks","10":"tag-berks-county","11":"tag-commonwealth-of-pennsylvanias-environmental-hearing-board","12":"tag-construction","13":"tag-customs-enforcement","14":"tag-decision","15":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","16":"tag-detention-centers","17":"tag-dhs","18":"tag-ice","19":"tag-ice-detention-center","20":"tag-immigration","21":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","22":"tag-infrastructure-concernsthe-state","23":"tag-order","24":"tag-pennsylvania","25":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","26":"tag-pennsylvania-news","27":"tag-schuylkill-county","28":"tag-site","29":"tag-tremont-township","30":"tag-upper-bern-township","31":"tag-warehouse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162797","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=162797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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