US EditionProtesters rally against planned Maryland immigration detention facility that’s now paused
ICE signed a $113 million renovation contract for the building, but a judge temporarily halted work after Maryland’s attorney general sued.
- The DHS paused the purchase of new warehouses for immigrant detention on Thursday, including a Maryland facility where a judge temporarily halted work after the state's attorney general sued over a $113 million renovation contract.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is reviewing the federal warehouse-to-detention plan, which spent $1.074 billion on 11 warehouses nationwide to hold tens of thousands of immigrants under President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda.
- During a contentious Feb. 10 meeting, Washington County commissioners declared their "unwavering support" for ICE, though resident Nica Sutch eyeing a move and activist Patrick Dattilio, founder of Hagerstown Rapid Response, called the facility "built for packages, not people."
- Maryland's attorney general sued to challenge the detention project, prompting a judge to temporarily halt construction work; a court hearing is scheduled for April 15.
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The loudspeakers rang and protesters shouted “Stop the ICE!” outside a meeting in the western end of Maryland where county officials discussed worldly issues such as the solid waste budget. “This has been the case since the Department of Homeland Security purchased a 76,645 square metre (825,000 square feet) building in Washington County as part of a plan to transform warehouses across the United States into detention centers for tens of thousan…
‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland
To execute its mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration has big plans for small-town America. In the rural town of Williamsport, Maryland, just next to Hagerstown, the Department of Homeland Security recently purchased a massive shipping warehouse for over $100 million and plans to convert the facility into an immigrant detention center that will hold upwards of 1,500 human beings per day. In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you …
ICE detention center in Maryland faces protests
HAGERSTOWN — Horns blared and protesters screamed “Stop ICE!” outside a meeting on the western edge of Maryland where county officials were discussing mundane issues like the solid waste budget. It's been like this ever since the Department of Homeland Security bought an 825,000-square-foot (76,645-square-meter) building in Washington County as part of a plan to transform warehouses across the U.S. into detention facilities for tens of thousands…
Maryland Residents Protest ICE Facility Over Rights, Transparency Concerns
HAGERSTOWN, Maryland — Protests have intensified in western Maryland after plans to convert a warehouse into an immigration detention facility were temporarily halted by a federal judge. The Department of Homeland Security had approved a $113 million contract to renovate an 825,000-square-foot building in Washington County into a facility capable of housing 500 to 1,500 detainees. However, Maryland’s attorney general filed a lawsuit challenging …
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Protesters rally against planned Maryland immigration detention facility that's now paused
Protesters are rallying against a planned immigration detention facility in Maryland. The Department of Homeland Security bought a warehouse to convert into a detention center.
ICE told Maryland agency about warehouse plans 2 weeks before they became public
When the news first broke in late January about the federal government’s purchase of a massive warehouse for immigration detention in Western Maryland, Gov. Wes Moore’s administration expressed shock that the project was launched “with no coordination with the state.”
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