{"id":296120,"date":"2026-09-29T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296120\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:08:28","slug":"trumps-mass-detention-machine-in-pennsylvania-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296120\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Mass Detention Machine in Pennsylvania \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A sign is placed in the yard of a residential property off US Route 322 approaching the small town of Philipsburg in central Pennsylvania. The sign appears almost as if it is floating in the lush green grass. Greeting passersby entering this town of some 3,000 residents, it displays a weeping Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame and sorrow before Route 322 twists and curls through the heart of town.<\/p>\n

Philipsburg is a town with a history built on timber, industry, and coal. Industry has disappeared, and it\u2019s been decades since coal was a significant employer. Yet one employer has remained in Philipsburg: GEO Group, the second largest for-profit prison company in the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"SignYard sign on US Route 322 at the southern entrance to Philipsburg.<\/p>\n

Eager to replace lost jobs, developers from the private prison company Cornell Corrections, and the state, believed the construction of a prison would fill this need. Built on the grounds of an old strip mine, Moshannon Valley Correctional Facility opened in 2006 and operated as a federal prison for fifteen years. Cornell was acquired by GEO Group in 2010, and in 2021, the prison temporarily closed only to reopen later that same year as an immigration detention center. ICE signed a 5-year agreement with Clearfield County. Clearfield County then signed a \u201cmanagement agreement\u201d with the owner and operator of the prison, GEO Group. The prison was renamed the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (MVPC).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned there on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the northeast. Eighty-five percent of those detained in MVPC have no criminal record. In 2025, two immigrants died in ICE custody in MVPC, including 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, found hanging by his neck in a shower stall on August 5.<\/p>\n

In April, dozens of detainees launched a hunger strike to protest conditions. While anti-ICE and anti-detention advocates have sustained an active campaign to shut down the facility, many Philipsburg residents and local officials see things differently. An annual $200,000 administrative fee to Clearfield County for serving as the middleman in this pass-through of federal funds is one reason for keeping it open. The benefits of local tax revenue and jobs remain the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"PrisonMoshannon Valley Processing Center<\/p>\n

\"DinerPhilipsburg, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no problem with the facility,\u201d a local resident told me at a Knights of Columbus pancake breakfast one Sunday morning. \u201cWhen jobs are lost, that place provides something for people here. If they don\u2019t put immigrants here, they\u2019ll find somewhere else. Keep the jobs here. I don\u2019t have an issue with it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outside its major urban centers\u2014Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, and the capital, Harrisburg\u2014as well as the town of State College in Center County, home to Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania voters helped return Trump to office. Despite Democratic control of the governor\u2019s office and House, rural counties have driven Pennsylvania to rank fifth nationally in 287(g) agreements, which allow local law enforcement to help carry out some ICE duties. Currently, 130 township and borough police departments, county and district attorney\u2019s offices, constables and sheriffs statewide assist ICE. In 2026, nearly 5,500 immigrants have been arrested and detained in Pennsylvania. None of the state\u2019s eight ICE detention facilities compare in size and function to MVPC. It incarcerates locals and out-of-state transfers in a system structured to sever and isolate immigrants from family, community, legal counsel, and due process. Moshannon has become a vital instrument in Trump\u2019s mass deportation\u2014rather, mass detention\u2014machine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"BusAn ICE bus filled with detained immigrants travels down GEO Drive from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (MVPC). Light from MVPC in the distance illuminates storm clouds during a heavy rain.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a valuable piece of GEO Group\u2019s \u201csecure services\u201d portfolio. Invoices obtained through open records requests show that from January 2025 to May of this year, GEO earned nearly $90 million in revenue from MVPC. As ICE retreats from using warehouses to expand detention capacity, it has spent more than $2.2 billion to directly purchase existing detention facilities from GEO Group\u2019s competitor, CoreCivic. During a Q2 earnings call, GEO Group CEO George Zoley reported that the company was in an \u201cactive process\u201d for the sale of several turn-key facilities. In late August, ICE published a solicitation to award contracts for \u201cturn-key detention facilities\u201d in four regions in the US, including central Pennsylvania. In early September, with the contract for MVPC set to expire at the end of the month, DHS requested a 6-month extension. Two weeks later, Clearfield County Commissioner approved the extension\u00a0in a 2-1 vote.<\/p>\n

\"ChurchChurch service at Christian & Missionary Alliance Church in Philipsburg. July 19, 2026. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt should stay because of jobs,\u201d a man named Larry tells me before the service. \u201cBecause they give $200,000 to Clearfield County for every year of that contract. And it\u2019s not hurting anybody. That money goes to the county. Even if it helps pay for the annual fair, it\u2019s still worth having people there. They got to have a jail anyway. They got to put the people somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Large,After a Sunday service at Bible Baptist Church of Philipsburg, July 19, 2026. \u201cPolitics fade into everything. This is not a local issue where people are against it. If they were being mistreated up there, I\u2019d say, \u2018This has to stop.\u2019 That\u2019s where I stand on moral issues. But heaven has its policies to get you in and our country has its policies to get in too. The law of the land must be obeyed. They\u2019re in there for a reason. They didn\u2019t take them because they didn\u2019t do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Activists like Timothy Smith, who chairs the Bill of Rights Defense Committee-Keystone State, anticipate based on these moves that DHS is either preparing to contract directly with GEO Group or outright purchase MVPC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will give DHS and GEO more long-term stability and release both from the local risks and oversight that have strained the operation of MVPC. I truly think it will be an outright purchase,\u201d Smith says. Both situations would enrich GEO Group shareholders while landing a financial blow to Clearfield County and Philipsburg. In both scenarios, immigrants and the pain, trauma, grief and loss experienced by their families\u2014including US citizens\u2014are both the raw materials and byproducts of profit-making maneuvers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A mother sells everything and relocates to Maryland so she and her son can be closer to her husband. He\u2019s languished in MVPC now for over 500 days. A father and his 18-year-old son, detained together during a routine check-in with ICE, put the pieces of their lives back together. ICE separated them. The father remained detained in Philadelphia. The teenager was transferred to MVPC. A woman in New York City struggles to find legal strategies to stop the deportation of her husband to eastern Europe. As we talk, he\u2019s now in his eighth day in MVPC\u2019s solitary confinement unit. A man sits alone in his studio apartment outside of Pittsburgh and confronts the \u201cempty space\u201d in his life. Faced with the reality of spending more months detained in Moshannon, his husband made the decision to self-deport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Charlotte<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u2019s husband has been detained in Moshannon Valley Processing Center for over one and a half years. She was born in California; her husband is from Afghanistan and arrived in the US in 2016 on a valid student visa. They met in 2019, had a child together and got married in 2021. They lived in Illinois, where he received a REAL ID driver\u2019s license and a work permit valid until 2029. In early 2025, while visiting family in Maryland, he was pulled over by a sheriff in West Virginia. No reason was provided for his arrest. He was transferred to ICE detention at Moshannon Valley Processing Center. To be closer to her husband in detention, Charlotte sold everything and moved to Maryland.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Charlotte talks about the impact of her husband\u2019s detention on their son JJ. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a US citizen and I have a child. They want us to be left with nothing. So then do we give up? But at this point, we can\u2019t give up. Because they won\u2019t even let him self-deport. They won\u2019t let him sign voluntary departure. They won\u2019t let him do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AAt the age of two, Charlotte\u2019s son was diagnosed with ADHD and autism. He was incredibly close to his father: \u201cI wish daddy was home. We\u2019re going to fight for daddy to get home. We\u2019re not going to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Close-upCharlotte holds hundreds of pages of personal documents, including her marriage license, birth certificates, tax returns, and deeds to homes she and her husband have owned. She prepared the paperwork for an interview with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to support the change of her husband\u2019s status. The interview date was postponed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want us to be left with nothing, so we do give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We cry everytime we leave a visit.<\/p>\n

Charlotte talks about the pain of going to visit her husband in the detention center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went for my child\u2019s birthday. We went for Father\u2019s Day and Mother\u2019s Day. We sit there with him all day wishing we can hug him. But we can\u2019t\u2026We\u2019re trying to get him out and we\u2019re just at a loss. Like, what\u2019s next? What are we going to do?\u2026We just want something other than being locked up. We just want a hug. We just want to move on with answers. That\u2019s all we\u2019re asking, but we still have none of that.\u201d
\u201cEven though the person didn\u2019t pass away, it kind of feels like that. Like he\u2019s been taken away from us. The only thing that\u2019s been helping us is our visits. It\u2019s him being there and seeing him behind the plexiglass. That\u2019s what\u2019s kept us going. If we couldn\u2019t do that, we would be completely lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the state, networks of trained volunteers accompany immigrants to ICE check-ins, observe courts for ICE waiting outside, and monitor neighborhoods for ICE activity. As Pennsylvania provides no state funding for the defense of immigrants facing detention and deportation, nonprofit legal service providers take on as many clients as possible yet find themselves stretched beyond capacity. Activists and community members attend local government meetings to stop involvement with ICE or end detention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kris<\/p>\n

Kris, 28, met his partner in mid-2024. Originally from Brazil, his partner fled to the US and was permitted to stay in the country. Immigration officials scheduled his first hearing for 2028. The two fell in love and were legally married in Pennsylvania in December 2025. At a routine ICE check-in, he was detained and transferred to Moshannon Valley Processing Center. Faced with months in detention and deportation, he asked for \u201cvoluntary departure.\u201d The judge approved the request, and he voluntarily deported himself to Brazil in the middle of June.<\/p>\n

\"AKris, whose partner self-deported after being detained at a routine immigration check-in. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe provided all of the evidence under the sun,\u201d Kris told me. \u201cEverything you could have with your spouse we had, but nothing was recognized. They only tried to twist it into a fraud. My husband had no criminal charges, nothing wrong, not even a parking ticket, no traffic violations. None of it mattered. I\u2019ve been left with a silence that I wasn\u2019t used to. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband had no criminal charges, nothing wrong, not even a parking ticket, no traffic violations. None of it mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, knowing I was gay before gay marriage was legalized and having that stigma placed upon people who were gay, I felt persecuted at that time. And now I\u2019m encountering another form of persecution; I feel like I can\u2019t marry who I want. I can\u2019t live the life that I\u2019m entitled to have with the person that I love. It\u2019s so dehumanizing. It\u2019s like he\u2019s less-than. I feel persecuted for loving an immigrant and marrying an immigrant. \u2018Oh, you married an immigrant? This is what you deserve.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Eastern Europe<\/p>\n

This woman\u2019s husband has been detained in Moshannon Valley Processing Center for five months. She\u2019s a US citizen. Her husband was born in Eastern Europe and settled in the United States in 2023. He received a work permit, had been through USCIS biometric processing, and was issued an ID. In early 2026, while working as a delivery driver in Nassau County, he was pulled over for a broken headlight. He was arrested and then released. When released, ICE arrested and placed him in detention. He found out his lawyer had never filed his asylum paperwork with the courts. He had no criminal record.<\/p>\n

\"AAsking to remain anonymous, this woman sits in her apartment in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially he was hopeful he would get out. Then he started getting angry, especially when they put him in solitary confinement. He couldn\u2019t understand what was happening. They put him on major depression medication, but he started losing his emotions. I wasn\u2019t sure if he was at risk of suicide, because I knew how he was changing. It\u2019s like watching somebody die in front of you for a prolonged period of time.\u201d
\u201cI think for the majority of the detained, there\u2019s at least two people on the outside who are fighting for them, struggling. There\u2019s a lot of people who are unseen. You can count the number of detained individuals in ICE facilities, but you can\u2019t really count the number of people affected.
After we met, her husband was transferred to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas. In late July he was deported on a series of flights to his country of birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Father and Son Detained<\/p>\n

At the age of fourteen, this young man and his family arrived at the US border, immediately applied for asylum, and followed all US immigration and asylum policies and procedures. In early 2026, just after his eighteenth birthday, ICE asked him and his father to appear early for their immigration-check in. When they arrived, ICE detained both of them \u201cdue to available bed space.\u201d Within days, ICE separated the two. The young man was transferred to Moshannon Valley Processing Center.<\/p>\n

\"Close-up<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

After two months in detention in Moshannon and weeks of lawyers tirelessly working and battling his case through the immigration court system, an immigration judge evaluated the actual merits of his asylum claim, and granted him asylum. As a result, he was immediately released. The father, 35, and his son, 18, sit together in their home.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could never be calm in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think they could arrest me for just being there,\u201d he said of the ICE appointment. \u201cThe second day I was in Moshannon, I got a bloody nose\u2014and I would get bloody noses often. I think it was the stress, my fear, or worrying about what was going to happen. I\u2019d never done anything wrong and I felt undignified. There were a lot of older adults and I didn\u2019t know any of them, so I was very scared because I was the youngest person there. There was a lot of stress and a lot of fighting. There were people who had been in there for years and others who were there for one or two days and then deported. You could never be calm in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Streno, Mayor<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always been important to the community. It\u2019s never been a big problem. It\u2019s only been a positive for us in this town,\u201d Mayor John Streno said to me as we sat on the front porch of his home in Philipsburg.<\/p>\n

\"AJohn Streno has been the mayor of Philipsburg for over twenty years. Prior to retiring, he spent ten years as a correctional officer for GEO at Moshannon, before it was an immigration detention facility.<\/p>\n

When describing Moshannon Valley Processing Center as an ICE facility, the mayor said, \u201cTo me, in a way, it\u2019s no different than a cemetery. It\u2019s a place where people come and end up and you never see them again. They come to the prison, they end up there, and then they go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WomanBobbi Erickson, co-founder of the advocacy group Indivisible: Mayday, addresses county commissioners at a Clearfield County Commissioners Meeting on July 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

\"SmallThe state of Pennsylvania does not provide any sustained funding to Legal service providers. Demand for Defender Association of Philadelphia services has rise three times more than the capacity. <\/p>\n

Community members provide comments on why the current 5-year contract between the county and GEO should not be renewed: \u201cI come here today with a broken heart. My plan for today was to have somebody from Moshannon call and give his testimony and his words to you. Last night he told me he was too scared to do so, that he was afraid his case would be impacted, that he would be taken away from his family and he would lose his home. He was scared to speak about his experiences. You don\u2019t hear the stories inside this facility because it\u2019s run-on fear. People inside ask me, \u2018Why am I here?\u2019 The only thing I can ever tell them is, for profit, and because the men in charge won\u2019t listen to their stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state of Pennsylvania does not provide any sustained funding to legal service providers. The state ranks fourth in the number of habeas corpus petitions filed by immigrants since the beginning of Trump\u2019s second term. Since December of 2025, habeas petitions filed by the Defender Association of Philadelphia have resulted in the release of 303 people\u2014but demand for their services is three times more than they have the capacity to provide. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn January 2025, they just started detaining everyone for non-criminal reasons. Regular asylum seekers living their lives, contributing to their community, not doing anything wrong,\u201d Lilah Thompson, chief of immigration for the community unit at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, said to me. \u201cDetention numbers just shot up. There are all these ways in which ICE began ramping up detention, stripping people of rights and status or pending status\u2014detaining people that have no business being in detention, because nothing had changed in their situation to warrant it. ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Legal Support<\/p>\n

\u201cMy client is a gentleman who is married to a US citizen. He was on his pathway to citizenship. He was literally one month away from getting his green card when he was detained by ICE, completely unjustly, no warrant whatsoever. He was moved to Moshannon, but thankfully we got him moved back to the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia. I was prepared to not really lose this case, but try to encourage my client to stay in detention for the six or eight months needed to wait out his appeal. I kind of sent this lawsuit against the court as a Hail Mary, just to show that we did everything we could do. And the fact that not only did we get the decision we wanted, but also got it pretty quickly to me, it\u2019s a blessing and a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PersonStanding outside the ICE office in downtown Philadelphia, immigration attorney Albert Robles waits for a client to be released from the FDC Philadelphia immigration detention center. <\/p>\n

The Witnesses<\/p>\n

Moments before the photo above was taken, in Evans City in Butler County north of Pittsburgh, local police and ICE pulled over the driver for a broken taillight. He was a 23-year-old man from Ecuador who worked laying carpets; he showed his ID but was arrested and detained by ICE. \u201cI told them he has a work permit but he didn\u2019t have it on him,\u201d said his co-worker, who was sitting in the passenger seat when the arrest happened. \u201cThey arrested him anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ReflectionA reflection of Jenny, a volunteer for the organization Frontline Dignity, in the window of a work van. <\/p>\n

\"FourOfficial Legal Observers from Frontline Dignity stand outside the Domestic Violence court in downtown Pittsburgh. \u201cWe\u2019ve witnessed ICE make detentions inside the courthouse and outside when people are on their way in. That\u2019s why we stage ourselves outside, because people wouldn\u2019t even have a chance to get in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WomanJenny patrols areas of Cranberry Township for potential ICE activity. Any ICE sightings or incidents of ICE arrests are witnessed and reported to a larger network of monitors. In July 2026, Frontline Dignity documented 55 confirmed ICE incidents in their area and 67 known detentions. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s devastating what\u2019s been going on in Pittsburgh for the last year and a half,\u201d Jenny says. \u201cAnd it feels so incredibly heavy and dark, and it feels like everything escalated so quickly. Showing up and making sure we\u2019re there to observe and help seems like the only hopeful thing to do at this point, to try to help everybody through what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s sad and it\u2019s devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Philipsburg, organizers and activists canvas the town, educate residents and ask for their support and signatures on a petition to push the three county commissioners to not renew the management agreement with GEO Group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they should ship all of them motherfuckers back to wherever they came from and then all of you Democrats should go and follow them,\u201d a man says to one canvasser. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s very American of you,\u201d the canvasser politely replies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

To me, in a way, it\u2019s no different than a cemetary.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a place where people come and end up<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

and you never see them again.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A bus transfers immigrants detained by ICE from Moshannon Valley Processing Center.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Saturday, July 11. Several thousand people sit in folding chairs along Presqueisle Street in downtown Philipsburg. They wait for the 2026 Heritage Days Festival parade to start. The theme this year is \u201cLet Freedom Ring.\u201d I walk the length of Presqueisle Street, randomly asking people for their feelings about detaining immigrants at Moshannon. One woman says she has friends who were recently hired there and now make $30 an hour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no problem with those illegals being put up there,\u201d her husband adds.<\/p>\n

Another man says jobs and money are the only things that matter, while another says, \u201cThose people detained there bring money to the town.\u201d <\/p>\n

A woman talks with me in a whisper away from her family. <\/p>\n

\"MarchingParade for the Philipsburg Heritage Days, a 3-day festival that runs the week after the 4th of July. The theme of the 2026 festival was \u2018Let Freedom Ring\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople sit in front of the Philips Hotel for the Philipsburg Heritage Days Parade. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo treat people like they are all criminals and animals, that\u2019s where I have to draw the line. It\u2019s morally wrong,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll the years I\u2019ve lived in this town, I\u2019ve never heard too much about that facility until ICE took it over. Until people from ICE went in there,\u201d a woman shared with me as she sat with family on their porch on Presqueisle Street. \u201cFor a long time I didn\u2019t realize it was an ICE facility. And I didn\u2019t even know what the difference was. I don\u2019t really agree with the whole way the immigrant thing\u2019s being handled. I think they\u2019re taking people they don\u2019t need to take. They\u2019re not taking the worst of the worst, you know? They\u2019re taking anybody. But here and the way I feel, we\u2019re the minority.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not taking the worst of the worst, you know? They\u2019re taking anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

On this same Saturday, on Route 322 at the opposite end of Philipsburg, volunteers set up a canopy and table on a corner of a small road that leads up to Moshannon Vallery Processing Center. They provide information and resources to families who have driven hours to visit loved ones. Families have come from New York, New Jersey, Maryland and other parts of Pennsylvania. \u201cWe have no idea what\u2019s going to happen to him,\u201d a man says of his son-in-law. \u201cIt\u2019s been so painful on his mother.\u201d He and the young man\u2019s mother drove four hours from New York to visit him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visiting Moshannon<\/p>\n

For entry, GEO requires visitors to adhere to strict dress code rules. That day, two parents drove four hours from New York to visit their son who had already been detained for three months. Unaware GEO does not permit entrance to female visitors with metal supports in their bras, the mother used the tent to change into a new bra, part of a collection of free clothing available to visitors.<\/p>\n

\"ChangingOn Saturday, July 11, volunteers set up a changing tent on the corner of the road leading to Moshannon Valley Processing Center.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

This man, a US citizen, drove four hours from Maryland to visit his brother who has been detained in MVPC for over a month. His brother has lived in the US for 26 years. GEO Group employees denied his visitation, citing his open-toed shoes, which they said did not adhere to dress code rules. He drove to a nearby Dollar General and bought a pair of sneakers, then returned. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was pulled over while driving home from work, arrested and put here. He\u2019s never done anything wrong.,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s my third visit. What\u2019s happening is crazy. It\u2019s like they took a plate of spaghetti and threw it against the wall to see what sticks. That\u2019s what happened to my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Behind them and their SUV parked on the corner, a large roadside billboard funded by several activist groups provides a backdrop to the efforts of the volunteers and the stories of the five other families that stop to ask questions. The billboard compares the costs to detain one immigrant in Moshannon Valley Processing Center for a year versus the cost to educate one child in Philipsburg, and asks who benefits from the detentions. It\u2019s not only a parting message to everyone as they leave Philipsburg on 322, but also a harsh reminder of the yard sign, and Lady Liberty\u2019s somber greeting to visitors, a few miles back.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AA tent set up by volunteers to provide information and assistance to people visiting family members detained in MVPC on July 11, 2026, and an anti-ICE billboard at the road that leads to MVPC off US Route 322 as one exits Philipsburg. The billboard is funded by Invisible: Mayday, the Shut Down Detention Campaign and Pittsburgh Women for Democracy,.<\/p>\n

Greg Constantine produced this work, the third in a series documenting immigration detention and its wider impact in Oklahoma<\/a>, Indiana<\/a>, and Pennsylvania, as part of the 2026 Bertha Challenge Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-296120","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\/296120","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=296120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}