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  • Trump is recruiting thousands of local officers to aid immigration effort. Some states are saying no

    02/17/2026 4:26:47 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 5:03 PM CST, February 17, 2026 | DAVID A. LIEB and BRIAN WITTE
    Over the past 18 years, officers at Maryland’s Frederick County jail have asked thousands of inmates two standard questions: What country are you a citizen of? And where were you born?If the answer was anything other than the United States, local officers deputized with special federal authority launched an investigation into whether the person was in the country illegally. Since 2008, Frederick County has turned over 1,884 people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sheriff Charles Jenkins said. But that is coming to an immediate halt under a law signed Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore that prohibits immigration enforcement...
  • Gov. Larry Hogan: GOP ‘desperately in need of a course correction’

    05/03/2022 1:23:46 PM PDT · by RandFan · 49 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 3, 2022 | By Brian Witte
    ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is urging Republican voters to “stand against the extremes,” saying the GOP is “desperately in need of a course correction,” as the term-limited governor weighs a presidential run. In prepared remarks for a speech Tuesday evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, Hogan cast himself as a politician with broad appeal like his political hero, Reagan. The Republican criticized last year’s rioting at the U.S. Capitol as “an outrageous attack on our Democracy, incited by the losing candidate’s inflammatory false rhetoric.”