The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has settled a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania State Police, alleging the agency ethnically profiled ten Latino drivers and passengers, who were stopped, questioned about their immigration status, and detained for prolonged periods.

When the Clearfield County commissioners approved two contracts with a private prison company to open the largest immigration detention center in the Northeast, they failed to provide public notice as required by state law, depriving community members of the chance to comment on the contract.

The Biden administration has entered into at least one new Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agreement to expand its use of private prisons, despite a campaign promise and an executive order from President Biden to end the use of privately run detention facilities. 

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic at Villanova University filed a federal lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today, seeking documents that indicate how the agency’s officers engage in civil immigration enforcement.

Lawyers representing 13 people freed from immigration detention by a federal court ruling in March have asked the court to expand the reach of that order by converting it into a class action lawsuit.

A federal court in Harrisburg today lifted a stay, upholding its decision from earlier this week that ordered the release of 20 people currently held in immigration detention (two clients have already been released) in two county facilities in Pennsylvania.

A federal district court today ordered the immediate release of 22 people in civil immigration detention in two county jails in Pennsylvania, the second such ruling in the last week.

HARRISBURG - A federal court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ruled today that federal immigration authorities must immediately release the ten people who sued for their release and who remain in detention in three county facilities in the commonwealth.