ICE Facilities

Chanting and hymns could be heard from within the Washington County Commissioner’s office as people gathered to protest for and against the facility.

The state says an ICE facility outside Hagerstown will have negative impacts on the surrounding area.

Anthony Brown says DHS did not conduct proper assessments of the area.

Amid ramped up federal immigration enforcement efforts, Maryland lawmakers are working to regulate state-level participation where they can.

New groups and petitions are popping up over fears of a detention center.

Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation sent a letter Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons questioning what some have called abusive treatment in an immigration holding room facility in downtown Baltimore.

Protestors showed full force at the commissioners meeting.

The Banner's Ben Conarck joins us to share his reporting on the Department of Homeland Security alleged plan to turn a Hagerstown warehouse into a new ICE immigration detention center.

The members of Congress say they are outraged by the acquisition.

The agency bought the building for more than $102 million.