(WHTM) — The Shapiro administration warned the Department of Homeland Security it will not issue required permits for two immigration detention centers.

In a Feb. 12 letter, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) urged DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to reconsider converting properties in Berks and Schuylkill counties into detention facilities. The governor admonished the department’s immigration raids, writing its “record is reason enough to oppose your plan.”

Shapiro said DHS has not worked with state and local authorities on the project, leading them to gather information from public reporting.

However, he zeroed in on what he said were environmental concerns the facilities would bring to the rural Pennsylvania communities hosting them. The facility in Tremont Township, Schuylkill County, would hold 7,500 detainees, and the one in Upper Bern Township, Berks County, would hold 1,500 detainees, according to reports cited in a separate letter by the state secretaries of environmental protection and health.