Pennsylvania representatives conduct unannounced visit to ICE detention center

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:01]HER FROM BEING HIT BY OTHER DEBRIS.

[00:00:04]TWO PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS WENT TO THE MOSHANNON VALLEY ICE DETENTION CENTER EARLIER TODAY FOR AN UNANNOUNCED OVERSIGHT VISIT.

[00:00:11]CONGRESSMEN CHRIS DELUZIO AND CONGRESSWOMAN SUMMER LEE, BOTH DEMOCRATS, SAY THE VISIT COMES AFTER CONCERNS ABOUT THE CONDITIONS AT THAT FACILITY.

[00:00:17]THE PAIR SAY THEY WERE LET IN FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS, BUT THEIR STAFF AND TRANSLATORS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GO INSIDE.

[00:00:24]AFTER THEIR VISIT, THE REPRESENTATIVES POSTED A VIDEO ON SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING SOME OF WHAT THEY HEARD AND SAW.

[00:00:30]I MEAN, OF COURSE WE GOT A, I THINK, A PRETTY SANITIZED TOUR, BUT WE ALSO HAD ACCESS TO THE WOMEN’S UNIT WHERE THEY WERE QUITE WILLING TO, YOU KNOW, REALLY LAY OUT A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT THEY’VE BEEN GOING THROUGH.

[00:00:43]WE MET TWO PREGNANT WOMEN, ONE OF WHOM, YOU KNOW, HAS SUFFERED FROM SOME BLEEDING, TOLD US THAT THEY’RE NOT EVEN SURE, YOU KNOW, THE STATUS OF THEIR OF THEIR PREGNANCY.

[00:00:51]WE, WE HEARD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THEIR ABUSES, SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE COMPLAINTS THAT WE HEARD ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOOD AND OTHER THINGS.

[00:00:58]SO PRETTY REVEALING.

[00:00:59]THERE WERE TWO DEATHS REPORTED AT THE DETENTION CENTER LAST YEAR, INCLUDING A MAN WHO WAS ARRESTED IN LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, DAUPHIN COUNTY ICE, SAID CHAO FANG.

[00:01:06]SHE WAS FOU