The Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia will become one of the two federal facilities in the north -eastern United States, which will limit the stopped ice among President Donald Trump Emphasis on much more arrests and deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Until 125 detainees could be detained in a prison in the city center, waiting for court interrogations or moving to other countries.
This movement increases the number of immigration and customs places in the USA, Pennsylvania from three to four and immediately sentenced the supporters of immigrants who want local leaders to speak against the agreement.
The Federal Prisoner Bureau will reserve a space in FDC Philadelphia for detained men, said Frank Bailey, regional vice president of the Regional American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Lokalists 33 on Friday. ICE will also provide at least two officers in FDC Philadelphia, located on the seventh and Łukowa streets and other institutions holding detainees.
According to immigration lawyers in Philadelphia, the first detainees began to come to the facility.
The recent role in Philadelphia in immigration stops appears when reports of ice activities have increased in the Philadelphia region since Trump’s inauguration.
Trump undertook to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, which caused significant questions for people responsible for the implementation of the plan. This includes how the federal government will limit millions of people who are waiting for court dates and deportation flights after arrest. Personnel deficiencies also remain for federal prison employees.
At the beginning of this month, the Department of Justice, Internal Security, ICE and the Federal Prisoner Office reached an agreement that included the selection of Philadelphia and Berlin, NH, as two north -east places, according to note This was obtained by ABC News. Federal detection centers in Miami, Atlanta and Leavenworth, can.
Pennsylvania is home to three institutions that already have ice cream detainees: 1 876-person Moshannon Valley Valley Provincing Center in Clearfield, the prison facility of Clinton and the prison institution of Pike. He remains unclear why he would be detained in FDC Philadelphia instead of in one of the other objects.
Philadelphia is a city of the sanctuary, the name given to jurisdictions that limit their cooperation with ice, but Trump promised to break these spaces. For example, the city does not accept migrants detained by migrants, unless the documents are accompanied by signed court orders.
The city’s government in Philadelphia has no right to dictate the activities of federal blockades. And ICE agents in this and other cities of the sanctuary retain all power to perform their work.
On Friday, city officials failed to get a comment.
Ice said in a statement that he would exploit up to 125 beds in prison to be filled with the operational needs of the agency. The agency said that the office in Philadelphia “is dedicated to the ICE mission and will continue to use all available resources,” said the agency.
Expecting the “fairly constant flow” of detained ice
In federal prisons, the detainees were temporarily lived by Ice-Zarówno under republican and democratic presidents-but this time the institutions will keep them at a much more regular and long-term period, waiting for the process or deportation. Given the concentration of Trump’s administration on this issue, Bailey provides an influx of detainees.
“Usually there may be months in which you would not have any, and then you would get a few or something like that, but now I think it will be quite a constant flow, so it will be much more constant and a more regular phenomenon than in the past,” said Bailey.
If a person is accused of a separate crime in addition to the illegal entrance to the country, they will be kept in a federal object until the hearing, said Bailey, but if they are stopped only because of their immigration status, they will be deported.
For reasons of detention, it is a civil function, not a criminal, and its purpose is to ensure compliance with dates and orders of immigration courts.
Jonah Eaton, a lawyer supervising court disputes at the National Service Center, an organization of immigrants in Philadelphia, said that he and other lawyers know several cases in which migrants have already been transferred to a federal prison. He said that one of his clients was there for over a week, after sending Pike Facility in Hawley, PA.
Before “routine processing” detained in any federal prison institution, objects usually receive 48 hours, according to a note. The detainees will most likely be “fully processed” in the approved detention centers between 8 am and 2 in the afternoon from Monday to Friday, excluding federal holidays. FBOP does not accept detainees for minors under 18 years of age.
“They will be treated, like any other person who will go to a federal prison,” said Bailey, emphasizing that “they will not be treated.”
It remains unclear for the inhabitants of the Prison Council, why Philadelphia was elected as one of two facilities in the north -east region, taking into account several institutions in the US served by FBOP – including the Federal Prison Institution of Loretto, PA. Prime Real Estate for detained apartments. The council raised an idea to the Central FBOP office, but it didn’t take it.
“We could simply transfer some of these detained ice to these objects, and then the staff could stay and did not have to move to another place,” said Bailey.
Peter Pedemonti, Codirector of New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, Immigrants’ spokesman The group had a similar thought, asking why Philadelphia was chosen.
“He feels very much in Trump’s textbook with a small revenge and revenge,” he said. “The decision to place additional beds in the heart of Philadelphia, blocks, from where they signed the declaration of independence, is vintage Trump.”
Philadelphia will have space, but there are fears about the staff
Bailey said that FDC Philadelphia is not full, which means “they will have space” for detained men. However, according to the note, detained women are not prohibited in federal detention centers due to space problems.
According to government statistics, ICE has about 42,000 people and electronically monitors almost five times. About 188,3302 people and families can live freely, often with relatives or supporters, while tracking the face fit technology, phone control and devices worn by the wrist.
The tide of arrests as part of the Trump administration is a crowding of a federal detention system, exceeding its ability and causes that the agency has released detainees, sometimes several dozen a day, According to internal government statistics obtained by CBS News.
This is a problem that included presidency with the Biden administration examining ways of adding 600 beds to the New Jersey detention center, according to Inquirer in November 2024.
Although federal agencies devoted to public safety, like FBOP, were largely unscathed by government employment of freezing or dismissals, the federal prison system is still struggling with the national deficiencies of staff, and the inflow of the detainees “even more stretches staff”, Bailey, “Bailey said .
FDC Philadelphia is not allowed by 25 officers, in accordance with the personnel data obtained by Inquirer
“The staff is on board, doing everything we have to, we just need to do it and more employees,” said Bailey. “The only way to get more employees is that our salary is competitive, so we must boost the salary.”
In response to the list of questions from Inquirer regarding FDC PHILADELPHIA personnel, the expected number of detainees and other operations in custody, FBOP spokesman Donald Murphy confirmed that Federal prisons help ICE in their operations, but they did not constitute any details.
The transfer changes into opposition from the groups of sparkling, which want local leaders to take a strong position against Philadelphia who were chosen for this operation.
“When this impact becomes greater, what our city is involved, if at all?” Erika Guadalupe Núñez, executive director of Juntos, an organization of Latin support in Philadelphia, said on Friday. “There will be unjustly detained in our city. Will we just look away? “
A member of the Rue Landau council, who carried out the trial to assess the city’s readiness for the second administration of Trump, including the president’s immigration policy, condemned the apartment of migrants in federal institutions.
“The detained resident in our federal prisons are unfettered and immoral and leaves me many questions that I want to answer,” said Landau.
Personnel writer Chris Palmer contributed to this article.
