{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-leads-pa-colleagues-demanding-stronger-data-transparency-ice", "Deluzio Leads PA Colleagues in Demanding Stronger Data Transparency from ICE", "2026-09-11", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Christopher R. Deluzio", "D000530", "deluzio.house.gov", "deluzio", "https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Yesterday, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) led his Pennsylvania colleagues Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), and Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) on a letter to the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) exposing the lack of data transparency in current ICE records management and reporting. ICE is refusing to document in public records which local law enforcement agencies with a 287(g) agreement are involved in arrests, thereby hiding from public view how local law enforcement is involved in ICE\u2019s mass deportation regime.\n\nSpecifically, the Congressmembers are pushing for training records, complaints, and oversight records about 287(g) programs in Pennsylvania to be made public. The 287(g) program sets up partnerships between ICE and state or local law enforcement agencies to authorize selected officers to carry out federal immigration enforcement or deportation. Reps. Deluzio, Dean, Scanlon, and Lee are demanding ICE require its agents to fully complete the 287(g)-designation field in its arrest records and identify the participating agencies involved in arrests. They also make specific demands that more data, details, and records be released to the public.\n\nThe Pennsylvania congressmembers write in the letter:\n\n\u201cAccording to published federal records between January 1 to August 6, 2026, of the 1,227 Pennsylvania 287(g) arrest records, only 12 of those records included the task force designation agency that was involved in arrest. ICE chose to withhold that information more than 1,000 times so far this year despite such information being a designated field included in arrest records. This discrepancy undermines transparency and leaves the public without a clear understanding of which agency or department was involved.\n\nThe members continue:\n\n\u201cThe public has a right to clear and complete information about the nature of the enforcement activities taking place in our neighborhoods and the departments or agencies responsible for carrying them out. Programs between federal and local law enforcement agencies must meet the highest standards of transparency.\u201d\n\nThe full text of the letter is available HERE.\n\nCongressman Deluzio is actively fighting back against Trump\u2019s mass deportation scheme. In May 2026, he and Congresswoman Summer Lee conducted an unannounced oversight visit to Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield County, PA, where they found that the overwhelming majority of people locked up inside the ICE facility were considered low-security level\u2014meaning that they have not been accused of serious, violent crimes or engaged in similar conduct while detained.\n\nDuring this visit, the two congressmembers were blocked from bringing congressional staff inside the facility. These staff were immigration policy experts and able to provide translation services, limiting the congressmembers\u2019 ability to communicate with people inside Moshannon. After this, Congressman Deluzio introduced the Oversight Access Act, a new bill which would permit Members of Congress to bring one member of their staff inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities when conducting oversight, without prior notice.\n\nRep. Deluzio led and joined his Pennsylvania colleagues on recent letters to ICE and the GEO Group, the for-profit prison corporation that owns and operates the Pennsylvania Moshannon Valley Processing Center to demand answers on GEO\u2019s failure to comply with federal standards of adequate staffing and medical care to detainees and to stop obstructing congressional oversight.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-12T09:02:30Z", "2026-09-12T09:03:27Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-leads-pa-colleagues-demanding-stronger-data-transparency-ice"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 104.01485301554203, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}