(File Photo of Senator John Fetterman)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Berks County, PA) According to U.S. Senator John Fetterman, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has canceled plans to use two Pennsylvania warehouses as immigrant detention centers. Yesterday, Fetterman confirmed a recent report by the New York Times that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had abandoned plans to use at least seven of the eleven warehouses it bought in several states including facilities in Berks and Schuylkill counties. On February 2nd, the federal government bought a warehouse on the 64-acre property at 3501 Mountain Road, Upper Bern Township, Berks County, for $87.4 million. It bought the former Big Lots distribution center at 50 Rausch Creek Road, Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, on the same day for $119.5 million. The communities face a loss of revenue from the acquisition of the properties by the federal government.











