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As with any reporting project, some information gets left on the cutting room floor. So, what we'd like to do is pull back the curtain a bit on what went into the ICEd Out limited series from Folo PA, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s podcast, produced by Emily Previti and edited by Tim Lambert. Tim and Emily's conversation also provides more context for the immigration detention facility proposed in Schuylkill County and how it's landing with the community. Jessica Kourkounis is our photographer for this project. Our music is from the Free Music Archive licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License. Opening: His Last Share of the Stars by Doctor Turtle. End credits: Dusk by Mr Smith. If you are new to the Capital-Star, we are a statewide nonprofit news organization that focuses on breaking down how policy decisions in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., affect Pennsylvanians.Check us out at penncapital-star.com. You can subscribe to our newsletter, The Morning Guide, there – and support our work. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement coming into Schuylkill County seems familiar to some people there – and not in a good way. They say it continues a pattern that dates back hundreds of years – to the beginning of the coal mining industry – of outsiders exploiting the community.ICEd Out is a limited series from Folo PA, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s podcast, produced by Emily Previti and edited by Tim Lambert. Special thanks to WITF for the use of their studios. Jessica Kourkounis is our photographer for this project. Our music is from the Free Music Archive licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License. Opening: His Last Share of the Stars by Doctor Turtle. End credits: Dusk by Mr Smith. If you are new to the Capital-Star, we are a statewide nonprofit news organization that focuses on breaking down how policy decisions in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., affect Pennsylvanians.Check us out at penncapital-star.com. You can subscribe to our newsletter, The Morning Guide, there – and support our work. 

Those who've been most vocal about the plans for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tremont Township agree that the rural area cannot support the operation that the federal government has in mind – and that it will only exacerbate the community’s economic and environmental issues. Others, however, see an opportunity to address them.ICEd Out is a limited series from Folo PA, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s podcast, produced by Emily Previti and edited by Tim Lambert. Special thanks to WITF for the use of their studios. Jessica Kourkounis is our photographer for this project. Our music is from the Free Music Archive licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License. Opening: His Last Share of the Stars by Doctor Turtle. End credits: Dusk by Mr Smith. If you are new to the Capital-Star, we are a statewide nonprofit news organization that focuses on breaking down how policy decisions in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., affect Pennsylvanians.Check us out at penncapital-star.com. You can subscribe to our newsletter, The Morning Guide, there – and support our work. 

Joyce Wetzel owns the daycare center right next door to the former Big Lots warehouse in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, poised to become an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. In trying to navigate the uncertainty she's facing, Joyce - who's been in business for more than four decades and lived in the adjacent borough her entire life - has met mainly indifference from her elected representatives. ICEd Out is a limited series from Folo PA, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s podcast, produced by Emily Previti and edited by Tim Lambert. Special thanks to WITF for the use of their studios. Jessica Kourkounis is our photographer for this project. Our music is from the Free Music Archive licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License. Opening: His Last Share of the Stars by Doctor Turtle. End credits: Dusk by Mr Smith. If you are new to the Capital-Star, we are a statewide nonprofit news organization that focuses on breaking down how policy decisions in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., affect Pennsylvanians.Check us out at penncapital-star.com. You can subscribe to our newsletter, The Morning Guide, there – and support our work. 

Pennsylvania Capital-Star audio reporter Emily Previti introduces this series about the impact on a community poised to host an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as part of the federal government’s mass deportation initiative.