Local governments can’t override federal authority, but they’re leveraging zoning, infrastructure limits and litigation to ...

As the Trump Administration seeks to expand its immigrant detention capacity around the country by converting warehouses and other facilities to house thousands of detainees, local communities, ...

READING — Gov. Josh Shapiro says he will use “every tool at his disposal” to stop planned ICE detention centers in Berks and Schuylkill Counties, though he stopped short of discussing what levers his ...

Maryland is suing the Trump administration over plans to use a warehouse in Washington County as an ICE detention center, Governor Wes Moore announced. Moore said the state is taking legal action in ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement finalized the purchase of a 520,000-square-foot warehouse in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in February 2026. The agency paid US$87 million for the warehouse, intended ...

SEATTLE — King County's elected council voted 7 to 2 on Monday to impose a one-year moratorium on new or expanding immigration detention facilities in unincorporated areas of the county, pushing ...

Howard County, Maryland, has revoked the building permit for a private detention center that County Executive Calvin Ball said was going to be used by U.S. Immigration and Customs. And the county ...

President Donald Trump tours a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 1, 2025.