Maryland lawmakers closer to passing roadblock to ICE deportation effort

The Maryland Modelin Council has passed a draft law prohibiting agents with the Immigration and Customs Agency (ICE) from the introduction of sensitive sites without a judicial order.
The legislation, the Senate Bill 828, which will prevent ice agents from schools, libraries and churches unless the agency is able to obtain a judicial order, the Democratic Democratic Council approved the vote 98-39.
It is now returning to the Senate in the state where, if approved in its amended form, it will be transferred to the Office of the Democratic Ruler Wes Moore.
The draft law comes at a time when president Donald Trump has increased deportation efforts throughout the country, and in order to provide a promise in the campaign that has become a central in his third attempt for the White House.
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Ice agents will not be able to enter places such as churches or schools without a judicial order if the bill becomes a law. (Christopher Deltz/Bloomberg via Getti Emaiz)
This effort led to more than 100,000 deportations between when Trump took office on January 20 and the end of March, according to the numbers provided to Newsweek, a number that was already more than a third of 271,000 that was deported during the last year of the Biden administration.
But legislators in Maryland put a barrier in front of this effort, as the state -controlled legislative body discusses the state that the ice tactics have spread fear through local communities.
“People in my community were very long for a long time,” Democrat Karen Simpson told Fox Affiliate WBFF. “I am grateful to everyone in this body who voted in favor of this so that we can get rid of 287 (g) who feared our society.”
The new legislation also includes the Marlyland House 1222 bill, which seeks to eliminate the ICE 287 (G) program from its use in the state. This program allows local law enforcement agencies in partnership with ICE and assist in immigration enforcement efforts, including cooperation with Ice detainees who direct local judicial states to retain illegal immigrants in prison so that they can be arrested by ICE for deportation procedures.
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The draft law will prevent ice factors from sensitive places and restricts local agencies from cooperating with ice. (ICE ERO El Paso/X)
This legislation opposed the Republican Representative Cathy Szeliga, who told WBFF that the draft law was nothing more than “fear of the left from the left” which “raises the community of migrants”.
Szeliga has managed to add an amendment to the legislation that would ensure that illegal foreigners who are in the state of the state’s sexual crimes record to ICE be handed over, although this ruling will not enter into force until June 1.
The legislation will not return to the Senate, where Szeliga believes it will pass despite the opposition of such amendments.
“I hear that the Senate does not like the draft law the way that has been amended. But I think they will pass this bill,” Szelija said.

The new legislation can soon find its way to the Office of the Democratic Governor Wes Moore. (Nathan Howard/Getti Emaiz)
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The Senate owns Maryland until midnight tonight to vote on SB 828 before postponing the General Assembly in Maryland for this year. If it passes, it goes to the Moore office.
An ICE spokesman for comment by Fox News Digital said that the agency does not comment on legislation.
2025-04-07 19:59:00