Immigration

Last October, Scranton City Council approved Mayor Paige Cognetti’s ambitious downtown streetscape plan. The first finished section of new sidewalks and new sidewall was celebrated last week – less than a year later.

Today, a new partnership hopes to bolster the state’s rural healthcare workforce. And ICE will continue to run the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield County.

Immigrant advocates say immigration enforcement agents targeted a well-known hospital system’s construction project in Danville in the last week. And Pennsylvania’s top election official says voting procedures remain unchanged despite a legal battle over mail-in ballots.

Pa. Immigration Coalition and Centre County Rapid Response Network say ICE agents arrested at least 42 since Sept. 2 in raids centered on the Geisinger Medical Center expansion project in Danville.

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.