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• Maryland

Mayor Young, Police Commissioner Harrison declare support for Baltimore's immigrant community, rebuke Trump

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

• Podcast

Reporting from Baltimore's immigrant communities during a week of warnings

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

• Maryland

'They were stopping people for no reason': ICE agents deploy for 'criminal enforcement' in Columbia

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

• Opinion

Follow immigration law and problem solved

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

• Opinion

Donald Trump: fire starter

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.

• Opinion

Trump's campaign of terror against immigrants

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

• News

Baltimore advocates warn immigrants after pledge from President Trump that ICE will remove 'millions' in U.S.

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

• Politics

Vice President Pence visits Baltimore to honor Secret Service agent, tour ICE facility

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).

• Maryland

Vice President Mike Pence to speak in Baltimore, meet with ICE agents Wednesday

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.

• Maryland

Silver Spring soccer coach gets extension in immigration case

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.

• Opinion

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

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

• Maryland

Hopkins sit-in day 2: Students continue ‘fight’ against new campus police, ICE contracts

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

• Maryland

Salvadoran woman who won civil right suit in Maryland released from ICE custody

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

• Maryland

Salvadoran woman who won civil rights suit against Frederick County is granted restraining order against ICE

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

• Maryland

ICE detains Salvadoran woman who won civil rights suit against Frederick County

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

• Maryland

What is 287(g) program, and how does ICE use it to work with Maryland law enforcement?

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

• Maryland

Attorneys see longer detention times for migrant children in Maryland as ICE detains potential sponsors

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

• Opinion

Taking food from the mouths of immigrant kids

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.

• Colleges and Universities

Johns Hopkins among schools being pressured to cut ties with ICE

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.

• Opinion

Hopkins must break with ICE — now

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.

• Politics

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

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

By Jeff Barker

Jul 19, 2018

• Opinion

'Abolish' ICE? Maybe 'Purge' is a better word

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

• Latest

Trump appears to walk back 'zero tolerance' immigration policy as it rushes to reunite families

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.

• Maryland

Maryland woman detained after check-in at Baltimore ICE office

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.

• Opinion

Witcover: Statue of Liberty protest highlights nation's divisions

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.

• Maryland

Hundreds rally in Patterson Park to protest Trump immigration policies

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

• Maryland

Baltimore woman's daughter and granddaughter were separated at the border. She wants to take the 6-year-old in

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.

• Opinion

Detaining families indefinitely is unacceptable

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.

• Politics

Citing family separation policy, Maryland Gov. Hogan calls back National Guard unit from border

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.

• Opinion

Standing with undocumented immigrants

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.

• Maryland

Community rallies around Maryland woman in danger of deportation

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

• Opinion

Program's discontinuation sentences asylum seekers to 'grim fates'

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.

• Prostitution

Harford Sheriff's Office raids area massage parlors

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

• Politics

Seven Maryland stores part of 7-Eleven immigration raid

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

• Politics

Sessions: FBI will 'probably be able to act' on request in Baltimore Det. Sean Suiter case

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

• Sports

Undocumented immigrants in Baltimore seek refuge in soccer

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

• Politics

Federal authorities made dozens of requests to hold immigrants in Baltimore

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

• Opinion

Hey, Feds: Baltimore suffers murders, not migrants

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

• Baltimore City

28 immigrants arrested in Maryland among hundreds nationwide, ICE says

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

• Opinion

Bishops: anti-immigrant sentiment a test of our faith

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.

• Opinion

Justice Dept. to Baltimore: Do the impossible illegally

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

• Politics

DOJ demands new jail immigration policy if Baltimore wants to join crime-fighting program

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

• Maryland

Immigrants ICE detained in Highlandtown released after lawyers intervene

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

• Opinion

How not to enforce immigration

Congress and the White House produce costly, ineffective immigration policies

• Opinion

Don't ask why they stayed, but how you can help

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.

• News

Baltimore attorney arrested for allegedly offering rape victim $3K to not testify, saying Trump will deport her

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

• Baltimore County

GOP members on Baltimore County Council to propose immigration screening in jail

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

• Opinion

Sessions' hollow threat

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

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore City Power Rankings: Zeke Cohen, Hogan, Pugh, more

↑ Zeke Cohen

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

• News

ICE: Rockville rape suspect's father arrested after immigration review

JESSUP, Md. (AP) — The father of a high school student charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in a school bathroom in Rockville was arrested after a r