PHILADELPHIA — ICE agents have arrested nearly 20 immigrants in Norristown, Pa., during the last two weeks, according to advocates who described an aggressive and ongoing enforcement campaign in the seat of Montgomery County.
“Every day, every day,” said Denisse Agurto, executive director of Unides Para Servir Norristown. “As many as nine cars, and more Spanish-speaking officers — people who look like us and talk like us.”
The arrests in the suburban municipality, where one in three residents is Latino, come as President Donald Trump named Montgomery County to a list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions from which he has threatened to cut federal funding.
Agurto’s organization contacted the Norristown Municipal Council for help, and families plan to address the Montgomery County commiss