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Philadelphia Democratic officials are trying to send a clear message to ICE. Standing outside the Philadelphia field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Center City on a hot Thursday morning, state lawmakers, immigration activists, and District...

Democratic lawmakers are crafting legislation in hopes of keeping eyes on ICE. State Sens. Amanda Cappelletti and Nikil Saval are introducing a “No Secret Police” bill that looks to keep law enforcement from concealing their identities – including U.S. Immigration and...

Dozens gathered outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Philadelphia on Thursday morning to show their support for a proposal in Harrisburg to require ICE agents to take off their masks. The planned legislation would prohibit law enforcement...

Pennsylvania lawmakers and community advocates gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Philadelphia Thursday to rally in support of new legislation they say would bring much-needed transparency and accountability to law enforcement,...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Two state legislators are introducing a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, from wearing masks or face coverings and hiding their identities during a detention or...

(The Center Square) - The growing debate about whether federal immigration agents should wear masks found a spotlight in Philadelphia on Thursday, where Democratic lawmakers spoke in support of a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers from concealing their...

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania state lawmakers and community activists gathered in Philadelphia to introduce the "No Secret Police" legislation, aiming to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to wear visible identification and prohibit face coverings. The...

Local Democratic lawmakers gathered Thursday outside ICE’s Philadelphia field office to advocate for a proposal to ban immigration agents – and all other law enforcement officers – in Pennsylvania from wearing masks to conceal their identities. The measure, initially...

The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would fund SEPTA and avoid major service cuts at the end of the month, but it's expected to face challenges from Democrats in the state House. Senators first passed an amendment to the bill,...

PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA will implement its drastic service cuts, officials said in the wake of the Pennsylvania Senate Tuesday passing an amendment that aimed to fund SEPTA in the short-term through the Public Transportation Trust Fund and interactive gaming revenue....

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed a funding bill that would largely use capital funding to maintain transit operations, a move the state’s governor and Democratically-controlled House say is not a viable solution to the funding...

The Pennsylvania Senate on Aug. 12 passed a different stop-gap funding proposal for SEPTA than the one the House passed the day before. A SEPTA spokesperson confirmed that without a funding solution before its Aug. 14 "doomsday" deadline, riders will see service cuts...

With the commonwealth approaching two months without a state budget, lawmakers in the Pennsylvania Senate returned to Harrisburg to consider a $47.7 billion General Fund budget proposal and a separate transit funding plan on Tuesday – with both proposals ultimately...

The Pennsylvania state Senate approved a budget Tuesday and advanced legislation that would fund SEPTA and other transportation infrastructure in the state for two years. The plan, opposed by Democrats, now heads back to the state House of Representatives, where it’s...

Local lawmakers, community leaders, advocates and local officials joined together outside of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Philadelphia Field Office on Thursday in a push towards state legislation against ICE officers who are unidentifiable due to the...

A group of Pennsylvania Democrats wants to change how ICE agents face the public in the commonwealth. A circulating memorandum is working its way through the state House in Harrisburg to change the current masked “anonymity” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement...