READING — Large-scale immigration raids haven’t hit a Pennsylvania county with a large Latino population, but the community, employers, and advocates are on high alert as enforcement ramps up across the country.
Nearly 200,000 of the more than 1 million immigrants living in Pennsylvania are undocumented, according to an analysis of 2023 census data by the American Immigration Council. In Berks County, there were 7,000 unauthorized immigrants in 2019, the Migration Policy Institute estimated.
But the area is also home to thousands of U.S. Citizens who are Puerto Rican or naturalized citizens born in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and other countries. ICE has wrongfully detained Latino citizens in other states…