Constables hope to find missing children in immigration search effort

(The Center Square) – After months of Congress stalling on funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and administrative changes, Pennsylvania state constables who’ve signed agreements to support federal law enforcement and potentially thousands of missing noncitizen children are ready to get to work.

On Friday, the U.S. Senate passed a $70 billion funding bill to support ICE and others border security operations, which includes funding to find hundreds of thousands of missing children.

“Pennsylvania State Constables are the best asset in the commonwealth to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement with warrants and find missing children,” Damascus Township Constable Chris Lee told The Center Square. “Approximately 700 constables serve 250,000 warrants a year with the overwhelming majority of warrant executions completed without incident. As elected officers we have developed community contacts that enable us to find wanted individuals better than any other agency.”