ICE says that Secure Communities targets those illegal immigrants guilty of committing serious crimes. But immigrant advocates say the program will thrust lower-level offenders and innocent people behind bars, and hinder police in their work with immigrant communities.

More than 100 demonstrators sauntered into the Chester Harrah's this past Saturday to park themselves in front of the contraptions they fear will wreak havoc on their city.

As the city tries to cut another billion dollars out of its 5-year budget, City Paper is taking a look at how cuts and proposed cuts are affecting different services and functions — not to argue against any individual cut, necessarily, but to catalog the damage. This week's focus is parks.

After cutting $1 billion from Philadelphia's five-year budget, Mayor Nutter now has another billion to cut. And this time, his administration has decided to ask the citizens of Philadelphia for advice in a series of public forums.