Summary: Audio and video recordings of children being taken from their parents at pop-up immigrant detention centers near the U.S.-Mexican border have drawn media frenzy and public outcry. But in Berks County, advocates have been speaking out for years. Outside Reading is a family detention center of a different kind: one of just three permanent shelters in the country. This week, a look at the Berks County Residential Center and its legal place in the battle over the border. Guests include Peter Hall, The Morning Call's federal court reporter, and State Rep. Peter Schweyer, a Democrat serving Lehigh County who toured the facility. Valley View is a production of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that is sponsored by the Lehigh Center for Clinical Research. Kayla Dwyer is the host and producer.
