(NewsNation) — A Pennsylvania official is reportedly moving to terminate a lease agreement between Lehigh County and the Department of Homeland Security, which had been renting office space used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement but failed to pay rent for more than three years.
Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel said he is ending the agreement and DHS “should consider themselves evicted,” according to a statement obtained by CBS News. “The department’s failure to pay rent, combined with DHS’s national reputation for recklessness, chaos, and public disorder, warrants ending any relationship with the County. We will not accept their blood money.”
Emails obtained by Newsweek revealed that the county’s Hamilton Financial Center building has been used by Homeland Security Investigations, a subdivision of ICE, since 2022 without a fully executed lease agreement…