{"id":1148,"date":"2026-07-21T14:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:07:22","slug":"how-the-threat-of-an-ice-detention-center-galvanized-a-trump-country-coal-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"How the Threat of an ICE Detention Center Galvanized a Trump-Country Coal Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div><ul><li><span>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/li><li><i><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<svg>\n<\/svg><\/i><span>Share on Bluesky<\/span><\/li><li><span>Email<\/span><\/li><li><span>Comments<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>When Joe Wiscount<\/span> was a teenager in Tremont, Pennsylvania, a tiny town in a region once ruled by coal barons, he worked a summer job stretching tarps over a pit in the countryside, preparing it to be filled with garbage. When he moved back to his hometown with his wife, Lara, over 30 years later, they found that waste had taken over. To the west and south, biosolids companies trucked in sewage from places like New York City and piled it in the open air, wafting clouds of morning stench toward Main Street. A landfill in the scar of old strip mine bloated toward a village to the east. To the north, a plant processed chicken manure into fertilizer pellets.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1146\">Tribes and Environmental Groups Sue to Block Trump\u2019s Gutting of the Endangered Species Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wiscounts, a pair of retired teachers who often finish each other\u2019s sentences, started calling the state environmental department and speaking out at local meetings, urging officials to stand up against companies. \u201cOther states that have more money and resources, whatever they want to get rid of, whether it\u2019s human crap or garbage, <em>this<\/em> is where it gets dumped,\u201d Joe says. \u201cPeople come in from outside the county with big money and just roll in and roll over everybody.\u201d Then, in January, the Wiscounts heard a rumor about a new enterprise coming to Tremont: Immigration and Customs Enforcement was planning to open a massive immigrant detention center in an empty 1.3 million square-foot warehouse on the outskirts of town.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons said the administration wanted to make deportations run like \u201c[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.\u201d Within months, Trump stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants, hired thousands of new ICE agents, and launched mass arrests, mostly of people with no criminal convictions. To hold them, the agency embarked on a $38.3 billion project to streamline and expand its system of lockups. Known as the , it sought to convert warehouses across the country into short-term processing centers and long-time \u201cmega-centers\u201d where people would wait for deportation.<\/p>\n<p>The $119 million deed for the Tremont mega-center came through on February 2. At a public meeting two days later, Schuylkill County commissioner Larry Padora reported that he\u2019d learned that the federal government intended for the warehouse to hold 7,500 detainees, plus up to 2,500 staff members. \u201cThey\u2019re going to try to employ them locally,\u201d Padora added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve heard is jobs, jobs, jobs,\u201d Joe Wiscount recounted on a recent afternoon in the couple\u2019s living room, surrounded by family photos and Phillies and Eagles memorabilia. But no one seemed able to explain how the town\u2014not much more than a Family Dollar, a pizzeria, and a few blocks of twin houses\u2014could support an immigrant jail five times its population. Nor could anyone answer why the federal government had chosen <em>this<\/em> town, of all places\u2014though Lara, guessed it had something to do with the deep red, rural politics of the area. Like most of the locations ICE selected for warehouse detention centers, Schuylkill County is heavily Republican, going 70 percent for Trump last election cycle. \u201cI don\u2019t think they thought they\u2019d get pushback,\u201d she speculated.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiscounts, both Democrats, had been horrified at the ICE shootings in Minneapolis a few weeks earlier, and were aghast that agency planned to use their town\u2019s empty distribution center to ship and store detainees. \u201cJust try to envision what 10,000 people jammed in there would look or feel like,\u201d Joe said. \u201cIt would be incredibly inhumane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their reaction also had something to do with family pride. The Wiscount name is synonymous with Tremont: Joe\u2019s mom taught third grade here for 37 years; a veterans\u2019 memorial park on Main Street bears a carving of his late father. On a recent night at the local gun club, 20 out of 23 people at the bar were Wiscounts, Lara recalled. \u201cWe were very upset and concerned about the town\u2019s name being attached to it,\u201d Joe said. Besides, Lara added, \u201cYou have to do the right thing. I was in education for 30 years, because I care about kids, I care about people.\u201d So they decided to begin organizing their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><span>A mile down<\/span> a country road off Interstate 81, past an Amazon warehouse, is the only stoplight in the Tremont township. There, directly behind the daycare, sits the vast, mostly windowless distribution center once owned by the discount retailer Big Lots. The building opened in 2001, during a warehouse-construction spree when the state began offering 10-year tax breaks to businesses willing to relocate into economically depressed regions. Big Lots built its distribution center on a property pockmarked with the remnants of early 1900s coal mines. Then, two years ago, the company went bankrupt, and 505 local jobs vanished.<\/p>\n<p>It was just the latest blow in a long history of hardship in the area, local activist Brianna Del Valle explained as she drove me around the forested roads near the warehouse in early June. The granddaughter of a miner, she pointed out signs of the past: piles of waste coal along roadways, streams that run orange and acidic with mine drainage. The Schuylkill County population, mostly working class and white, has been falling since 1930. Tiny local governments are desperate for revenue, making them vulnerable to corporate exploitation, Del Valle argues. Normally, \u201cthere\u2019s not a lot of political will to push back on things,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople are tired and busy and just don\u2019t have the wherewithal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the local loyalty to Trump, his administration\u2019s acquisition of the former Big Lots dealt an immediate blow to the local economy: The school district, county, and township lost nearly $1 million in annual property taxes. Adding insult to injury, multiple Republican local officials say they received zero communication from the federal government either before the sale or afterward. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get one letter from them,\u201d says Larry Bender, the 79-year-old former miner who\u2019s been a township supervisor for four decades.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did anyone from ICE talk to Justin Moeller, the young mayor of Tremont borough. If Moeller had been contacted before the sale, he could have explained that their little town simply didn\u2019t have enough water for a detention mega-center. In 2024, the mayor\u2014who also serves as assistant fire chief\u2014helped fight a pair of blazes that destroyed two houses and half a block of Main Street. Since then, the municipal authority has been hauling in water just to maintain safe levels for residents. According to  from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, ICE would need 900,000 gallons every day to provide adequate drinking, bathing, and flushing water for 7,500 detainees, not including staff\u2014more than double the capacity of the entire town\u2019s water system. On top of that, the detention center could produce up to 1,000,000 gallons of sewage daily. That\u2019s triple the permitted capacity of the local sewage treatment plant\u2014meaning yet more human waste would have to be shipped through Tremont, or else overflow into local waterways.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiscounts seized on the infrastructure problems as they began to organize in February. They circulated a petition opposing the detention center that cited the potential strain on water, sewage, and taxes, as well as ambulances, hospitals, and roads\u2014ultimately collecting hundreds of signatures. With help from Joe\u2019s mom, Brenda, they gathered written records of Tremont residents\u2019 objections. Many were worried about the warehouse\u2019s water and sewage issues, as well as the town\u2019s lack of a local police force to respond to potential anti-ICE protests like the ones that erupted this spring outside Delaney Hall, a detention center in New Jersey, over allegations of medical neglect and inadequate food.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some locals did support the detention center. When I visited the town in June, I met Kathleen Smith, a Trump voter wearing a God Bless America t-shirt as she packed groceries into her car at the Tremont Family Dollar. \u201cAt least if they break out, there\u2019s a lot of stripping holes,\u201d she told me, referring to remnants of mines in the mountains around the warehouse. Unprompted, she added that she moved to the Tremont area because Puerto Ricans moved into her old city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a racial town,\u201d explained Darrin Wansley, a military veteran sitting on his front porch a few blocks away from a house flying a Confederate flag. Though born in Philadelphia, Wansley doesn\u2019t want ICE around; he\u2019s been hearing news stories about them mistakenly arresting and deporting US citizens. For 24 years, he told me, he was the only Black person in Tremont. These days, he said, \u201cWe got mixed races in town. They could get picked up for no reason. Including me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite the local strain of racism, the Wiscounts were heartened to find plenty of neighbors who were worried about living conditions for detainees inside the former Big Lots. \u201cI worked at the warehouse for 15 years,\u201d one wrote on their testimonial form. \u201c[It\u2019s] not suitable for thousands of people.\u201d With Del Valle, who in February started a website called No Skook Detention, the couple organized a town hall. Lara remembers a sense of elation after nearly 100 people showed up, including the county commissioners. \u201cWe <em>can<\/em> do something,\u201d she recalls thinking. \u201cWe can make people listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A week later, Joe\u2019s cousin, Jennifer Devine, spearheaded a protest along Main Street. Dozens of people chanted \u201cICE out\u201d on the sidewalk, despite a downpour. \u201cI\u2019m willing to fight,\u201d swore Devine, who lives down the road from the Wiscounts and works the night shift at the Amazon distribution center. \u201cIf that place is functional, I told my husband, I\u2019ll be up there every day protesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Del Valle noted that county officials responded seriously to the water and sewer concerns. \u201cThat is a massive issue that needs to be addressed before anything goes on there,\u201d Padora declared at an early county commissioners meeting. Then powerful state leaders followed suit: In late February, Pennsylvania\u2019s Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro vowed to do \u201ceverything in my legal power and my regulatory power\u201d to stop ICE from moving into the warehouse. The following month, the state Department of Environmental Protection ordered ICE to submit written plans for its water and sewage and acquire permits before flushing or turning on a faucet. ICE appealed to the state\u2019s Environmental Hearing Board, seeking an order that would have allowed it to occupy the building before it addressed the infrastructure issues. But the appeal would take months, delaying the project\u2019s potential start date.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the country, the Detention Reengineering Initiative was running into similar stumbling blocks. Republican elected officials were pushing back on federal plans, and some state and town governments filed environmental lawsuits. Amid rumors that ICE was considering buying a second former Big Lots distribution center in Oklahoma, the Choctaw Nation swooped in and purchased the property themselves, \u201cto continue driving economic prosperity for our tribal members and the surrounding community,\u201d Chief Gary Batton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on June 18, the <em>New York Times<\/em> reported that ICE had decided to offload 7 of the 11 of the warehouses it had purchased, by reselling them or transferring them to other federal agencies. Tremont was on the list. So was another, smaller warehouse that ICE had bought next door in Berks County. Local Republican congressman, Rep. Dan Meuser, whose district included both locations, confirmed several days later that ICE no longer planned to turn either site into a detention facility. In a statement about the rationale, Meuser flicked at the effect of the local uproar: \u201cThe Administration\u2019s plans evolved based on operational needs and, in large part, the extensive due diligence conducted by county and local officials.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1143\">Oceans Are Absorbing Huge Amounts of Heat\u2014and Sending Some of It Ashore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day the <em>Times <\/em>story broke, I spoke by phone with Joe and Lara Wiscount. \u201cWe are beyond elated,\u201d Joe said. \u201cThrilled, excited beyond belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another voice in my head that has concerns, doesn\u2019t believe anything that these people say,\u201d Lara chimed in. But she was letting herself feel some relief. They planned to toast the news at the gun club that evening.<\/p>\n<p><span>Now, the warehouse<\/span> outside the town sits empty, its future use unknown. But something else has shifted in Tremont. After the fight about the detention center, \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter if they\u2019re Democrat, Republican, the town has come together,\u201d Lara told me in early June. \u201cAnd there are other issues that we need to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Top of mind are the biosolids plants that residents have been raising concerns about for years. Late last year, in response to the volume of odor complaints in the Tremont area, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection stationed a new inspector in Schuylkill County and issued a notice of violation to one company, Natural Soil Products, for piling up too much unscreened waste. In April, the department delayed a permit modification for the plant until it clarified how it would control foul smells.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the county, residents are up in arms about data centers, demanding officials adopt regulations to limit or block their development. And in the borough of St. Clair, they\u2019ve turned their attention to a landfill, with retired magistrate judge Dave Plachko rallying locals to stop a construction-waste dump from expanding toward the borough. The landfill, which opened in 2019 and is owned by the behemoth Waste Connections Inc., is notorious for releasing hydrogen sulfide that made residents\u2019 eyes and throats burn. So when it sought to buy 177 acres of former coal land even closer to town this spring, Plachko rallied neighbors on social media and started speaking out at county meetings. In July, a judge delayed the sale after Plachko recruited allies to help fight back in court.<\/p>\n<p>The public response has been \u201cat times overwhelming\u201d Plachko said. \u201cPeople are uniting against these huge unaccountable, exploitive corporations that are coming to Schuylkill County threatening our water, threatening our air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at a tipping point in Schuylkill County,\u201d one Republican voter testified at a recent county commissioners meeting. \u201cWe do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some voters have begun to equate the big corporations that cause environmental hazards and raise the cost of living with the Trump administration. Brandon Albert, a 33-year-old mechanic who rents an apartment in Tremont, sees the ICE warehouse as part of the same overarching trend of exploitation\u2014\u201ccorporate America capitalizing on small town USA.\u201d Albert voted for Trump in 2024, but \u201cI do regret it,\u201d he says. To him, Trump\u2019s chosen sides, and he\u2019s with the corporations. \u201cHe\u2019s becoming really anti-ordinary people and more big business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Could the political winds really be shifting in this deep-red county? The ICE warehouse has provided \u201can opening in areas where doors are not usually open to Democrats,\u201d said Penn State-Berks political science professor Randall Newnham. Democratic voter registration in Schuylkill County grew while Republicans fell\u2014albeit by just a few voters\u2014for the first time in seven years this April, according to county Democrats chair Todd Zimmerman.<\/p>\n<p>One test will be this year\u2019s midterm contest for the Pennsylvania 9<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional District, the only district in the country where ICE bought two warehouses. Incumbent Meuser\u2014the top-spending House member at Mar-a-Lago as of last summer\u2014has drawn ire from constituents for rarely holding in-person town halls to discuss issues in his district, including the ICE detention centers. In early June, local Democrats and independents lined a hot sidewalk outside his Schuylkill County office, protesting what they said was Meuser\u2019s absence and inaccessibility. (Meuser did not respond to a request for comment.) A volunteer handed out pins linking together various local issues: \u201cNo ICE Detention Center, No landfill expansion, No data centers, No [Natural Soil Products].\u201d The Wiscounts both gave speeches, Joe balancing the mic as Lara helped him flip pages on his clipboard.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging Meuser is Democrat Rachel Wallace, who grew up in Schuylkill County and went on to work in the Senate, the State Department, and the White House Office of Management and Budget before moving back to care for her ailing mother last year. Her bid is a longshot in a district still rated solidly Republican by national political forecasters. But her campaign recently released a survey of likely voters indicating that support for Trump and Meuser in the district had dropped by 11 and 17 points, respectively, since the 2024 election. In January, as residents were protesting Meuser\u2019s inaccessibility, she held her own town hall to hear concerns with the still-rumored detention center.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Wallace has focused much of her messaging on their deep-seated sense of political neglect and day-to-day economic struggle. \u201cWe know what it\u2019s like to have extractive industry come in and leave us all holding the bag,\u201d she tells me. \u201cThere\u2019s this sense in this part of the state where we\u2019ve just been sitting on our hands for so long\u2014and encouraged to sit on our hands for so long\u2014and now it\u2019s starting to boil.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<section><h3>Owned by no one\u2014except you.<\/h3><p><strong>We just keep seeing it happen<\/strong>: Newsrooms owned by billionaires and corporations are spinning their own narratives, overwriting the truth, following only stories that keep them in the pocket of those with even more power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not here<\/strong>. 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