The Altoona Mirror covered the final days of Frontline Dignity’s 8-day trek, reporting on the human connections and emotional encounters made along the route. “I’ve held and consoled weeping mothers and wives,” Jaime Martinez said during the march. “We’re building bridges of understanding.” Read the full article at Altoona Mirror →

The Pitt News reported on Pitt’s Student Government Board updates, including a call for students to attend Frontline Dignity’s legal observer trainings. “Come learn from Frontline Dignity on how to be a good and safe legal observer and protect our community from ICE,” Baker said. Read the full article at The Pitt News →

KDKA reported on ICE agents making 13 arrests at the Armstrong County driver’s license center in Kittanning, highlighting immigration enforcement expanding into everyday civic spaces. ICE agents made 13 arrests at the Armstrong County PennDOT driver’s license center in Kittanning on April 7, 2026. An alleged website error had directed people to the location for commercial drivers’ license renewal, where … Read More

KDKA covered Frontline Dignity’s Jaime Martinez mid-march, calling on statewide partners to help push for the closure of the Moshannon Valley Processing Center. “We need to be calling upon our partners all across the state to recognize what’s going on in this facility, bring scrutiny to it and eventually shut it down,” Martinez told KDKA. Read the full article at … Read More

Axios Pittsburgh covered Frontline Dignity’s 130-mile trek, spotlighting the unexpected community support and hospitality the walkers encountered along their route. “I had people coming up to me saying, ‘I’ll open my restaurant to you,’ ‘I have an Airbnb you guys can stay at,’ ‘I have a barn.’ I think it’s important to amplify that. Too often, people feel like no … Read More

Frontline Dignity was featured in the TribLIVE article, “Immigrant rights marchers continue through Westmoreland County on journey to ICE facility” From the article: A small caravan of backpack-clad immigrant rights advocates pushed through Westmoreland County Monday on their way to an ICE detention facility in Clearfield County. Jaime Martinez, executive director of Pittsburgh-based Frontline Dignity, is making the 8-day, roughly … Read More

Frontline Dignity was featured in the following Indiana Gazette article: “‘Pilgrimage’ to ICE detention center has three west-central PA stops” From the article: Protesters opposed to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity at a center in eastern Clearfield County are planning an eight-day “public pilgrimage and fundraising campaign” from Pittsburgh to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, via Apollo, Indiana and … Read More

WGAL reported on Pittsburgh immigrant rights activist Jaime Martinez walking more than 100 miles to protest conditions at the ICE detention center in Clearfield County. Pittsburgh immigrant rights activist Jaime Martinez walked more than 100 miles from Pittsburgh to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield County — the largest ICE detention facility in the Northeast — to protest conditions … Read More

Frontline Dignity was featured in the following Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, “Activist challenges immigration crackdown: ‘Is this who you want to be?‘” From the article: On a day marking resurrection, some three dozen immigration activists gathered Easter Sunday to bury intolerance on a rainy South Side sidewalk where yellow flower petals had been scattered. Frontline Dignity, a new Pittsburgh-based immigration rights … Read More

WCCS Radio in Indiana County covered Frontline Dignity’s 8-day walk as it passed through Indiana, Pennsylvania on the way to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center. “This is a pilgrimage. A protest. A refusal to let this happen unseen. For 8 days, we are walking from the ICE office in Pittsburgh, PA to Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, PA — … Read More