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The vice president of El Salvador denied Sen. Chris Van Hollen a face-to-face visit with a Maryland man wrongly deported last month.

Abrego-Garcia’s case has sparked a closely watched court battle that lawyers worry has major implications for the separation of powers and the rule of law.

“The government attorney did say that they intend to comply with the order and bring him back. That's the bare minimum.”

After Johns Hopkins University leaders told faculty to comply with immigration enforcement, a “broad coalition” of Baltimore residents, faculty and students are taking matters into their own hands.

Judge Paula Xinis ruled deporting Abrego Garcia was “an illegal act.”

Over fifty Maryland advocacy groups joined students at a rally Wednesday calling for immediate action from Governor Wes Moore, state lawmakers and Hopkins leaders to protect student rights.

The bill requires a warrant to hand over Marylanders’ data to the federal government.

Immigrants and their lawyers have reported spending days in windowless, overcrowded holding cells without food or beds.

Half a dozen local immigration lawyers and one former detainee spoke with WYPR about the conditions at the facility.

It would inform relevant state agencies about the limitations on federal immigration enforcement activities at sensitive locations.