Immigration

ICE is giving up on its plan to use warehouses in Schuylkill and Berks counties as detention centers. It withdrew its appeal of a Pa. DEP order preventing the use of local drinking water and a local sewage system until ICE proved it could meet state laws on safe drinking water and sewage disposal.

WVIA News released its annual PA School Report Card analysis this week. This year's report focuses on literacy and how schools around the state are trying to catch up.

The federal government has made a definitive decision on whether to go ahead with its proposed immigration detention centers in Schuylkill and Berks counties. Congressman Dan Meuser got confirmation on Friday.

U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser said Friday his office learned directly from the Department of Homeland Security that the department won't open immigration detention centers in Schuylkill and Berks counties.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security may be rethinking plans to turn two Pennsylvania warehouses into immigrant detention centers. U.S. Sen. John Fetterman issued a statement Monday night saying he is "pleased to confirm ICE" is cancelling the plans, but did not say how he knows that.

The New York Times is reporting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is dropping plans for immigration centers in Schuylkill, Berks counties and five other locations.

An ICE detainee says he was put in solitary confinement and transferred out of state in retaliation for speaking out about conditions. The alleged retaliation came after a protest at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley Processing Center, ICE’s largest immigrant detention facility in the northeast United States.

INMIGRACIÓN: Un informe especial en cinco partes

INMIGRACIÓN: Un informe especial en cinco partes

For two days next month, cyclists will ride 85 miles from Ararat to Berwick along the region’s long-distance trails. The NEPA Ecotour is coming up on June 6 and 7.