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Online commenter asks Berks commissioners to hold public meeting on voluntary ICE collaboration
Summary
An online public commenter, Craig Schafer of Kumru Township, urged the three commissioners to hold a public meeting to discuss concerns about the county's voluntary collaboration with ICE, asserting FOI responses show people handed to ICE were charged but not convicted and raising due-process concerns under the 14th Amendment.
An online commenter identified as Craig Schafer (Kumru Township) asked the commissioners to hold a public meeting to address the county's voluntary collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"I'm calling on all three commissioners to hold a public meeting to discuss our concerns regarding the county's voluntary collaboration with ICE," Schafer wrote in the virtual comment read into the record. He asserted that Freedom of Information responses show that people county officials handed over to ICE were charged but not convicted and argued that transferring people to ICE without conviction risks violating the 14th Amendment's due-process protections.
The comment concluded that handing people to ICE disrupts judicial processes and may prevent victims and families from receiving justice; no commissioner response is recorded in the meeting transcript.
