State continues effort to vaccinate frontline farmworkers
The state is pushing to get vaccines in the arms of mushroom workers, many of them Mexican immigrants.
The state is pushing to get vaccines in the arms of mushroom workers, many of them Mexican immigrants.
One couple has played a hand in getting Latinos into prominent positions in Berks County. They are working to export their success into other areas with large Latino communities.
As Berks officials were delayed in opening mass vaccination site, they celebrated the work of local non-governmental groups.
District Attorney John T. Adams said police reacted reasonably when 62-year-old Stephen Hughes approached them with a knife.
A document from an ICE official reveals an aspect of the federal government’s proposal immigrant detention center.
The Berks Family Residential Center in Bern Township is no longer detaining immigrant families — but the facility isn’t closed, it’s just waiting for what’s next.
Farmworkers are next in line to get access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Workers in Adams County said they look forward to being vaccinated, even if they were hesitant at first.
After families are released to sponsors, local and federal officials are not sharing details about what happens next to the county-owned facility.
Undetermined release date of U.S. Census data may require counties to do more.