Posted on 02/28/2020 6:42:17 PM PST by Beave Meister
Five sanctuary bills are currently under consideration by the Maryland state legislature.
HB 677 and its Senate companion, SB 850, would prohibit state and local detention facilities from entering into agreements to house ICE detainees. These bills will force ICE to send many immigration detainees far away from their families and lawyers, potentially to remote areas where ICE is able to secure detention space.
SB 649 would prevent any of the state's MVA custodians of records from providing ICE access to any such "public record that contains personal information unless the custodian is provided with a valid warrant or valid subpoena issued by a federal" or state court. This will endanger the lives of ICE agents, and be a boon to smugglers and human traffickers in the state, as well as to alien criminals seeking to avoid detention. It could result in DHS taking action to bar Marylanders from utilizing certain Trusted Traveler programs (as the department has done in New York), and possibly from using their state driver's licenses as identification to board airplanes.
SB 901 is a comprehensive sanctuary bill, which appears to be based on Montgomery County, Md.'s flawed sanctuary policy. It will all but prevent any communication between state and local law enforcement officials and ICE in the latter agency's attempts to apprehend criminal aliens, hamstring ICE's efforts to protect the community, endanger public safety, and facilitate fraud and terrorism. That bill only benefits criminals, at a huge cost to community safety.
SB 903 seeks to restrict ICE access to public schools, hospitals, and courthouses, despite stringent agency policies that are already in place concerning immigration apprehensions at those institutions. Simply put, it will make ICE's difficult job of protecting the community even harder, and more dangerous.
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Maryland is now a Mexican colony.
They would rather release illegal aliens to kill Americans than uphold US law.
They are gonna get so cut off by the Trump Administration they’ll end up owing money.
I live in this hole and can’t wait.
Just had rapes of 2 11 yo here in the Peoples Republic of Maryland and the politico’s don’t even flinch.
A big percentage of the public are clueless.
It’s stunning.
Will Hogan sign this stuff? If not, will it pass despite Hogan? If not, who cares, other than as an example of Dem insanity?
I do not think states can limit access by federal entities to ANYTHING.
Why the Hell should MD residents pay taxes and obey state laws then? This is insanity!!
I’m looking forward to a showdown between some of the county sheriffs and the state. The sheriffs operate most of the local detention centers. We call ours the “Harford Hilton.”
Not all of Maryland.
Yet.
Question for MD Dems: If COVID 19 is such a pestilence, why do you support open borders?
I think a lot of the victims of illegals are in dying areas anyway; nobody’s giving those victims or their families a voice. The enemedia will just maintain the charade that the open borders are a good thing...
It’s even worse than that; local and state governments are redoubling their efforts to squeeze revenues out of their normals to pay for these illegals. Here in NJ with our high taxes, the most obvious cost is the public schooling.
Makes me gladder to have departed Maryland 2 years ago.
Ping!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Hogan sometimes shows his backbone and makes them override his veto, but mostly he just caves.
And Old Line Staters from Montgomery County used to move across the Potomac to VA...now there’s a concerted effort to make VA —> MD. Horror show...fewer places left to go to.
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