Posted on 06/30/2025 10:28:36 AM PDT by 11th_VA
It’s a message one Maryland driver wanted to share with everybody on the road using a vanity license plate. But sometime after the plate was spotted in Bowley’s Quarters in Baltimore County, the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) yanked it.
A photo of the DEPORTM plate, taken June 7, was shared with WYPR. MDOT declined a request for an interview about it but it confirmed that the plate is no longer on the vehicle.
“This plate and several variations have been added to the ‘objectionable’ vanity license plate list,” according to a statement from MDOT.
When someone requests a vanity plate, according to MDOT, the “objectionable list” is checked before it’s issued. Several thousand banned license plate messages are on that list.
DEPORTM is now on the list and is categorized as “political hate.”
There are a number of reasons why a vanity plate can be placed on the “objectionable list” so it can’t be used, including if it communicates a message of any kind about race or ethnic or national origin.
A DEPORTM plate stirred controversy in Utah in 2020, during the first Trump administration.
Jason Gardner with the Utah Tax Commission said once it was brought to their attention they immediately revoked it. Gardner said a plate can’t disparage any group based on their national origin.
“We definitely take it pretty seriously,” Gardner said. “We don’t want to create any road rage with anybody based on something that might be on the license plate.”
MDOT officials would not say when the Maryland DEPORTM plate was first issued or if they were aware of what happened in Utah.
Gardner said Utah has its own “black list” but occasionally an objectionable plate gets issued…
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So supporting the legal act of deporting illegal aliens is now hate? I just saw the DOJ is suing Karen Bass…. Lets sue the Maryland DMV as well
Did Kilmar Abrego Garcia get his MALD FOTY vanity plates yet?
try d3p0r7m
“can’t disparage any group based on their national origin.”
But we can based on concepts of family values, or support of athletic team or choice of one brand name over another.
Free Speech is only free if you share my values.
It’s not hate, it’s a policy position.
I can remember quite a long time ago seeing this blonde-headed gal go flying by me on the interstate in a red corvette convertable. The plate was: ILUV2B8 !!!!
That’s kinda funny
I thought so when I came out of the Home Depot and saw it...
What about NUKEM?
“Gardner said a plate can’t disparage any group based on their national origin.”
It’s not national origin. It is LEGALITY. So sick of these bureaucrats defending CRIMINALS!!!
sue to get it back and claim that the state of mayrland is politically hateful to the owner of the license plate because of his views!
Meantime, ASSMAN is still acceptable.
In related news, the “GIV M BENNIES” plate was approved for issue
But you can hold rallies with hundreds of commie fags waving the flag of a terrorist organization and that’s a-OK.
I saw one the other day said, UNVAXED
How about;
MORE ICE
Utah has a black list? Uh, oh.
Mary is a term used to refer to a gay man and is sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. The state of Maryland needs to change its name.
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