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Mayor Young and Police Commissioner Harrison declared support for Baltimore's immigrants as they announced a new police policy to not aid ICE.

By Phil Davis

Jul 2, 2019

Baltimore Sun reporter Thalia Juarez discusses Baltimore's immigrant community and debunks common myths and misconceptions about immigration.

One witness described seeing eight or nine men arrested by ICE agents. Howard County Executive Calvin Ball insisted the action was not a "raid."

Don't pin immigration woes on the Trump administration when so many Americans refuse to enforce immigration law.

In the president’s mind, he’s a bipartisan humanitarian. But he's really more like the pyromaniac who deliberately sets fires and then puts them out as a hero.

Donald Trump has no interest in actually solving America's immigration problems. He just wants to scare immigrants to death.

President Donald Trump’s tweet the U.S. will deport “millions” of immigrants has immigration advocates reaching out to tell potential targets their rights.

Vice President Mike Pence visited Baltimore on Wednesday, presenting an award to an Annapolis man at a conference of Hispanic law enforcement officials before touring the local office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Vice President Mike Pence will speak at the Hispanic American Police Command Officers Association Aguila Awards Luncheon to be held at the Embassy Suites Inner Harbor.

A Silver Spring youth soccer coach who was potentially facing deportation to his native Togo received a six-month extension in his case from federal immigration authorities.

Cal Thomas: If illegal immigration isn't an emergency, what is it?

A group of Johns Hopkins students staged a sit-in during the university's Alumni Week to draw attention to a recently approved piece of legislation that allows for the creation of an armed campus police department.

By Catherine Rentz

Apr 4, 2019

Roxana Santos was released from ICE custody Monday after she was unexpectedly detained in January during a routine check-in with immigration officials.

By Lillian Reed

Feb 6, 2019

U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake issued a restraining order Monday, directing the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove Roxana Orellana Santos from the United States, according to court records.

By Lillian Reed

Jan 14, 2019

Roxana Orellana Santos, who successfully sued Frederick County in 2009 for civil rights violations, has been detained again for deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite a court order for her to remain in the United States.

By Lillian Reed

Jan 8, 2019

ncluding Anne Arundel, there are three counties in Maryland that partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to screen inmates under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

By Sarah Meehan

Dec 19, 2018

Since the Office of Refugee Resettlement began sharing information for immigration enforcement, nationally, ICE has arrested more than 40 people who came forward in the sponsorship process.

By Thalia Juarez

Oct 25, 2018

Trump administration plan to deny green cards to legal immigrants who use benefits like Medicaid and food stamps is not just classism, it's inhumane and unAmerican.

Some colleges are being pressured to cut ties with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid public outcries over the separation of migrant families along the nation's southern border.

To begin to rectify its long history of bad decisions, Hopkins should work to cut ties to the Homeland Security and Defense departments and immediately terminate all contracts with ICE — and donate the money received from such contracts to Baltimore’s immigration legal defense fund.

Trump tweets praise for pro-ICE resolution that Maryland Democrats call ‘sham’ and ‘political stunt’

By Jeff Barker

Jul 19, 2018

Reorganizing or reconstituting failed immigration enforcement agency isn't so shocking an idea.

Trump administration on Tuesday appeared to significantly pull back from its “zero tolerance” immigration policy as it rushed to reunite families to satisfy a court order.

The Baltimore office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a New Carrollton woman who had feared deportation for months, according to activists who have been outside of the office since 9 a.m.

For a man who has repeatedly demonstrated his wizardry in milking the maximum public relations out whatever comes his way, Donald Trump should have had a modicum of reluctant admiration for one protester's use of the Fourth of July and the Statue of Liberty to make her point.

Baltimore Women United and other local activist groups organize and help to lead a rally in support of "immigrants' rights" — and to resist the Trump administration's immigration policies.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Jun 30, 2018

A Honduran woman who has been living in Baltimore for 14 years wants to take in a young granddaughter who was separated from her mother at the Southwest Border this month.

After weeks of mounting pressure, the Trump administration finally reversed course on its cruel and unnecessary family separation practice. It’s important for us to keep in mind, however, just how low the bar has been set. We will still indefinitely be detaining families.

Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan responds to border crisis, saying he called back the state's small National Guard contingent and will not send any resources while migrant children are being separated from their parents.

Under the Trump administration, ICE has increasingly become a rogue agency determined to separate families, betraying the country’s promise of a better future for those who seek its shores.

Protesters, family members, churchgoers and employers gathered in front of Baltimore’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices Thursday morning in support of a New Carrollton woman.

By Brittany Britto

May 10, 2018

The DOJ decision to suspend the Legal Orientation Program for detained immigrants is dramatically increases the likelihood that we will deport countless victims to grim fates abroad, despite claiming to be a country that offers safe haven to the persecuted.

In an effort to curb alleged illegal activity in local “massage parlors,” three women were arrested recently by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office on solicitation charges.

By Erika Butler

Jan 26, 2018

Seven 7-Eleven stores in Maryland were caught up in a nationwide raid Wednesday that immigration officials described as the largest such effort against an employer under the Trump administration.

By John Fritze

Jan 11, 2018

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the FBI would “probably” be able to act on Baltimore’s request for that agency to take over the investigation of a police detective killed in West Baltimore last month.

By John Fritze

Dec 12, 2017

Soccer can provide a respite for undocumented immigrants during anxious times. It frequently attracts players who grew up playing the game in other countries and consider the sport part of their cultural heritage. But undocumented players are worried about new federal policies.

By Jeff Barker

Nov 6, 2017

Immigration agents have asked the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center to hold dozens of immigrants in custody, documents reviewed by The Baltimore Sun show.

By John Fritze

Oct 18, 2017

Justice Department ought to send help to Baltimore, not hinder city police for no good reason.

Federal immigration officials say 28 people have been arrested in Maryland during a nationwide sweep that targeted "sanctuary" jurisdictions.

By Kevin Rector

Sep 29, 2017

As faith leaders, we are called to love our neighbors, to welcome the stranger and to stand with the vulnerable. We cannot support our highest leaders espousal of anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Trump administration would deny city crime-fighting funds because of a policy over which it has no control.

Sessions wants Baltimore to make potentially unconstitutional changes at a jail it doesn't control in order to join a crime-fighting program.

By Pamela Wood

Aug 3, 2017

Two Highlandtown men — neither of whom had a criminal record — have been released from the Frederick County Detention Center and reunited with their friends and family after advocacy lawyers succeeded in arguing their cases before immigration judges.

By Luke Broadwater

Jul 13, 2017

Congress and the White House produce costly, ineffective immigration policies

Considering the proposed cuts to U.S. domestic spending, it is imperative to recognize how intimate partner violence is linked with monetary challenges and thus why federal policies that support survivors and financially insecure individuals must be maintained.

A Baltimore defense attorney was arrested in the downtown courthouse Tuesday and charged with obstruction of justice and witness intimidation for allegedly

The Baltimore County Council's Republican members want to require the county's jail to participate in a controversial federal immigration screening program.

Maryland must not capitulate to Attorney General Session's immigration threats

↑ Zeke Cohen

The First District Councilman is making common cause with the many undocumented immigrants in his district, and that put him

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