Jessica and Pedro Espitia first met 24 years ago when they were taking their trash to the dumpster at the Rolling Rock Motel in Duncansville, where they were both living 鈥� she with her infant daughter, he as a drywall hanger and finisher working in the building. Not long after, as they sat ...
A freelance journalist who has been researching the deaths of inmates in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has filed a federal lawsuit in Johnstown seeking the release of information concerning an inmate who died in December 2023 when housed in the Moshannon Valley Processing ...
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A member of St. Oscar Romero Parish in Washington County who was held at an ICE detention facility for nearly three months has been reunited with his family. Jesus Teran, 35, a father of two, was apprehended on July 8 while reporting to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field ...
More than seven weeks have passed since Jesus Teran, a 35-year-old church member of St. Oscar Romero Parish and asylum seeker, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the agency鈥檚 Pittsburgh field house. Since his July 8 arrest, Teran, a Venezuelan immigrant, has been ...
PHILIPSBURG 鈥� Liseth Carvajal knelt in a pew at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Philipsburg, Clearfield County, on Wednesday morning, fingers laced in prayer. Three miles away, her husband, Jesus Teran, sat in a visiting room at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest ...
