{"id":13461,"date":"2026-02-19T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13461\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:42:07","slug":"dhs-expected-to-meet-with-local-officials-regarding-proposed-upper-bern-township-ice-facility-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/13461\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS expected to meet with local officials regarding proposed Upper Bern Township ICE facility | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach says he&#8217;s been in touch with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to express his concerns about a possible ICE detention center in Upper Bern Township.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Leinbach said DHS committed to meeting with public officials. A date has not been set.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, ICE bought a warehouse on Mountain Road for more than $87 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Local, county, state, and federal officials have since expressed concerns about the impact on everything from infrastructure to tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security tells 69 News it will have &#8220;very well-structured detention facilities,&#8221; and there will be community impact studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Berks County Commissioner Christian Leinbach says he&#8217;s been in touch with the U.S. Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1200,104,1695,9876,1201,9875,9874,1697],"class_list":{"0":"post-13461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-bern","10":"tag-christian-leinbach","11":"tag-commissioner","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading","14":"tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","15":"tag-upper-bern-township"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}