MontCo Community Watch, a grassroots organization that tracks local ICE activity, posted today that a man was detained by ICE agents at 7:15am in Abington Township.

According to their post, two Chevy Tahoes were reportedly used by the agents.

The announcement is below:

In October, MontCo Community Watch filed a lawsuit which led to a temporary injunction from a federal judge which blocks the Department of Homeland Security from obtaining their user information from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.

In related news, Senator Art Haywood (Abington Township) and Senator Maria Collett (Fort Washington) co-sponsored Senate Bill 1071 which, if passed, would make it illegal for ICE agents to use face coverings to conceal their identities.

The law would also require ICE agents to have clearly visible identification including a badge with a name, badge number, and an agency-issued uniform.

“To target people based on appearance, language, or heritage under the guise of ‘law enforcement’ is nothing more than state-sanctioned intimidation,” Senator Amanda Cappelletti, the bill’s primary sponsor, said in a statement. “Armed agents, often without clear and visible identification, conducting indiscriminate raids are not making our country safer, they’re deepening division. ICE has become a symbol of government overreach, and its agents’ actions are a betrayal of our core democratic values. Their unprecedented use of masked policing is not just misguided, it is an intentional attempt to reshape America through fear and scapegoating.”

The full bill is below:

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