(The Center Square) – After months of Congress stalling on funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and administrative changes, Pennsylvania state constables who’ve signed agreements to support federal law enforcement and potentially thousands of missing noncitizen children are ready to get to work.
On Friday, the U.S. Senate passed a $70 billion funding bill to support ICE and others border security operations, which includes funding to find hundreds of thousands of missing children.
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