{"id":97770,"date":"2026-01-27T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97770\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:18:11","slug":"schwank-wrong-to-take-part-in-anti-ice-protest-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97770\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwank wrong to take part in anti-ICE protest in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Judy Schwank\u2019s participation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/01\/11\/mourners-gather-in-reading-to-honor-woman-shot-by-ice-agent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 12 rally<\/a> in Reading sickened me. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have sympathy for the poor woman who was killed, but had she been peacefully protesting and not using her car to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from enforcing the law, she would still be alive today.<\/p>\n<p>Where was Schwank\u2019s sympathy for me and my neighbors in the latter part of 2024 when an illegal immigrant broke into our properties and stole our stuff in Ruscombmanor Township. Not in Minnesota but right here in Berks County. Had the immigration laws been enforced we wouldn\u2019t be out a significant amount of money for some of us on fixed incomes. Where is the justice for us? Suppose he would have had a gun or other weapons?<\/p>\n<p>Instead of calling for justice and protesting for people who are breaking our laws by coming into our country illegally and stealing from us, why doesn\u2019t she put her energy toward meaningful property tax reform for people on fixed incomes struggling with ever-rising school taxes?<\/p>\n<p>Schwank has rationalized her values to suit the current political climate and hold herself above poor retired people like us.<\/p>\n<p>The sponsor of that rally was the pro-socialist Make the Road Pennsylvania. The group spearheading anti-ICE unrest is the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/trump-administration\/who-funds-the-groups-harassing-ice-agents-in-minnesota-the-lefts-premier-foundations-and-dark-money-networks-have-given-millions-records-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunrise Movement<\/a>, supported by the Center for Popular Democracy, George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Ford Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Readinger<\/p>\n<p>Ruscombmanor Township<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Judy Schwank\u2019s participation in the Jan. 12 rally in Reading sickened me. It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-97770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97770","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=97770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}