PHILADELPHIA – Everyone recognizes the blue-and-yellow historic markers that commemorate important people, places, and events in communities across Pennsylvania, but this one is different.
It stands on Fairmount Avenue near Fifth Street in Philadelphia, where it recognizes not a fabled inventor or bygone colonial battle but something recent and startling ― an ICE arrest.
It took place on Feb. 16, when masked agents descended on a Gopuff delivery driver who had pulled over to make a quick drop-off in Northern Liberties. After he was taken into custody, the car remained there for days, set two feet from the curb in a handicapped space, its hazard lights blinking until the battery finally died…