Maryland House, Senate Pass Bills to End 287(g) Law Enforcement Partnership with ICE

Does your state partner with ICE? Here’s who does, who doesn’t, who’s wavering

As scrutiny of how law enforcement agencies collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement increases, some are signing new contracts, seeing it as a public-safety tool. Still, activists criticized the program, fearing racial profiling by agents.  Public reaction to how local law enforcement interacts and works with ICE has become tense in some places as people point to the killings of 37-year-olds Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneso…

Maryland House, Senate pass bills to end 287(g) law enforcement partnership with ICE

Both the Maryland House and Senate have approved bills that could end 287(g) agreements, or partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and ICE.

MD Senate passes ICE anti-masking bill despite legal questions

The Maryland Senate passed legislation to prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing masks in the line of duty — including ICE officers.

Maryland laws banning ICE agreements, masks for law enforcement advance in state legislature

Maryland advances bills banning local police ICE agreements and mask-wearing by law enforcement.

Maryland's House, Senate pass bills banning 287(g) agreements

MD Democrats have passed emergency bills in both chambers to ban 287(g) agreements in the state. The agreements require local jails to screen inmates' immigration status and hand them over to ICE.

Frederick Residents Dispute Sheriff Jenkins’ ICE Claims Amid 287(g) Ban

Maryland state lawmakers passed emergency bills banning 287(g) agreements; community accounts contradict the Frederick sheriff’s claims that immigration enforcement stays in the jail. FREDERICK, Md. – One day after the Maryland General Assembly passed emergency legislation to ban local law enforcement partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, residents of a Frederick neighborhood are describing a different reality than the one Sheri…