{"id":288103,"date":"2026-09-17T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288103\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:20:08","slug":"upper-darby-township-council-passes-ordinance-limiting-involvement-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288103\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby Township Council passes ordinance limiting involvement with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Upper Darby Township Council unanimously passed an ordinance limiting its involvement with federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance prevents township personnel from assisting ICE in detaining or transferring immigrants. Township agencies are not supposed to support or assist ICE, Customs or Border Protection agents with immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of the township\u2019s population are immigrants. <\/p>\n<p>In January, 46-year-old Upper Darby resident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/family-of-man-who-died-in-ice-custody-wants-answers\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Parady La died in ICE custody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote Wednesday night, resident Latiful Hasan pleaded with the council to support the ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cICE should be out from this township, period,\u201d he said. \u201cWe voted for you guys to stand up for us. Now it\u2019s time for you to stand up for us to show that you actually support our concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rhonda Bell, an election worker, said she\u2019s fearful of ICE agents showing up at her precinct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I do not want to have to, at 6 o\u2019clock in the morning, confront somebody with a gun in uniform and harassing me and asking me for ID,\u201d she told council. \u201cI have really been fighting with whether or not I\u2019m going to even work the polls. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to live in fear. This is my township. I love all my immigrant family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Upper Darby Township Council unanimously passed an ordinance limiting its involvement with federal immigration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2443,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-288103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-ice","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\/288103","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=288103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}