Immigrants

Councilwoman Odette Ramos demands Mayor Brandon Scott to more than double the budget to cover legal services and wraparound support.

“This class action is about ICE’s repeated insistence on detaining people for no reason and holding them in cells for multiple days without proper medical care.”

Former Prince George’s County Police Cpl. Ivan Mendez, who interviewed Kilmar Abrego Garcia and helped label him as a gang member, later pleaded guilty to misconduct.

The vice president of El Salvador denied Sen. Chris Van Hollen a face-to-face visit with a Maryland man wrongly deported last month.

Abrego-Garcia’s case has sparked a closely watched court battle that lawyers worry has major implications for the separation of powers and the rule of law.

“The government attorney did say that they intend to comply with the order and bring him back. That's the bare minimum.”

After Johns Hopkins University leaders told faculty to comply with immigration enforcement, a “broad coalition” of Baltimore residents, faculty and students are taking matters into their own hands.

Protections for immigrants passed Monday with minutes to spare before lawmakers’ midnight deadline.

Senate leaders say the risk of lost funding is weighing against a bill barring local immigration enforcement agreements.

Judge Paula Xinis ruled deporting Abrego Garcia was “an illegal act.”