{"id":223253,"date":"2026-06-19T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223253\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:14:07","slug":"ice-plans-to-offload-warehouses-in-pennsylvania-counties-after-207m-purchase-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223253\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE plans to offload warehouses in Pennsylvania counties after $207M purchase: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The Department of Homeland Security is looking to offload a set of warehouses after spending more than $700 million total on them, including two vacant ones in a pair of Pennsylvania counties, according to a New York Times report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania warehouses, which cost around $207 million to purchase, are among the seven warehouses<\/a> Homeland Security is looking to get rid of, focusing more on “existing” locations.<\/p>\n

A 500,000-square-foot warehouse in Berks County and a former Big Lots distribution center in Schuylkill County were each bought under the Trump Administration to be used as additional detention centers across the U.S.<\/p>\n

The move was met with a significant amount of pushback from residents and lawmakers alike.<\/p>\n

Gov. Josh Shapiro said a Pennsylvania community would “literally run out of water<\/a>” in February, while Sen. John Fetterman expressed “deep concern<\/a>” over the move.<\/p>\n

Both Shapiro<\/a> and Fetterman reached out to former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to express concerns or urge her to reconsider the purchases.<\/p>\n

CBS 21reached out to DHS and received the following statement.<\/p>\n

From day one, DHS has remained singularly focused on removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the United States and is always evaluating the best methods to do so. These heinous criminals, once arrested, should be removed at lightning speed, not housed on American soil at the taxpayer\u2019s expense. DHS is moving swiftly to utilize EXISTING detention space with our state and county partners.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear what the plans for the warehouses would be, but the department said, according to the NYT report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 The Department of Homeland Security is looking to offload a set of warehouses after spending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-223253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223253","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=223253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}