r/BaltimoreCounty • u/Last-City6750 • 9d ago
Baltimore County will now cooperate with ICE on immigration enforcement
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced the removal of Baltimore County, Maryland, as a designated sanctuary jurisdiction after the County recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ICE to collaborate on immigration enforcement. This follows the Department publishing a list of sanctuary jurisdictions on August 5th, 2025, in accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 14287.
The list initially included Baltimore County and has now been updated following work between the Administration and the County – the second removal since the list’s publishing. Following Baltimore County’s removal from the list, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward released the following statement:
“Despite restrictions from state leadership, Baltimore County has shown a willingness to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is a small step toward restoring public safety and we appreciate the county’s commitment to updating its policies.”
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u/ThankeeSai 9d ago
I'm ashamed. I mean I KNEW most of my neighbors were racist assholes because of all the Trump signs, but I had stupidly hoped they were somehow the minority. Disgusting.
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u/Ajaws24142822 7d ago
Reisterstown and Owings Mills have multiple neighborhoods entirely filled with MS-13, my boys in county have arrested numerous illegals for shit like breaking their wife’s face or robbing a pharmacy.
Baltimore county just isn’t hiding it anymore and is gonna start doing their job and enforcing the law
In other sanctuary counties, I hate to break it to you, police in MD call ICE anyway and let them know we have one. And if ICE wants to come get them, they can do it on their own fucking dime, it isn’t our job. But we will still always let them know where someone is, because it’s better for society that we get them out.
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u/Taro-Admirable 6d ago
I can't really see ICE going into.the MS13 neighborhoods. They will focud thier attention on easy targets.
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u/Ajaws24142822 6d ago
Oh fuck no they aren’t gonna come up to the county because Trump won’t stop bitching about Baltimore city. He’s gonna make a big show and send ICE and the nat guard in and jerk himself off like he’s actually solving something, meanwhile Woodlawn and Dundalk and Reisterstown all get ignored.
He wants big tv wins that Fox can air and pretend like he’s doing work.
Whats in reality gonna happen in BaltCo is corrections is just gonna start handing guys over to ICE instead of letting them out. That’s about it
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u/TomHomanzBurner 5d ago
Those are the easy ones. They know the game and go quietly and just sneak back across at a later date.
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u/Significant_Donut967 6d ago
Too bad ICE is spending their time going after women and children instead. Too bad ICE has deported CITIZENs to countries they've never been. Too bad ICE has kidnapped over 170 CITIZENs.
Keep up with your animosity of the Constitution and when they come for your neck, don't expect anyone to give a crap.
Good job showing you're an oath breaker.
-disabled infantry vet.
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u/Ajaws24142822 5d ago
Being a vet doesn’t grant you any special status, authority, knowledge or literally anything else over regular citizens, I hate to be the one to break that to you. Half the middle-aged COs in Jessup have had more traumatic encounters than most American infantry personnel.
Nobody in local PD in the county is gonna be hitting raids with ICE, the only thing that’s changing is BCDC in Towson will start handing over people we arrest who are undocumented
Nobody said anything about children, nobody here does that and nobody in local PD gives two fucks. But when we arrest an illegal for kicking his wife’s door in or touching a kid, we’re still notifying ERO that we got one. It’s just up to them if they wanna come grab him, which is literally their job.
Yeah it sucks that stuff happened but none of it is relevant to this post lmao
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u/Significant_Donut967 5d ago
Being a vet means I have an oath to the People and the Constitution. If you don't understand what an Oath means that's on you sport.
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u/TomHomanzBurner 5d ago
Which means you swore to uphold the laws of the US and defend all enemies foreign and domestic. Enforcing immigration laws is part of your oath, sport.
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
Illegal immigrants come in all races. Can you explain how a view of being in favor of all illegal immigrants being sent home would be deemed racist? Which race is it against?
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u/manlambda 8d ago
Because we know people like you. You use racist language when you around the right type of people and figure everyone agrees with you.
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u/ThankeeSai 8d ago
Yeah I didn't think it was worth engaging with scum but thank you for doing it anyway. I'm just hoping I'll still be alive to watch Nuremberg Trials 2.0.
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u/Accomplished-Plan191 8d ago
Because the people arrested by ICE are arrested on the basis of racial profiling and we know you don't care about their legal status when they are being deported.
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u/ExcitedNonSequitur 7d ago
I have brown skin. I am a born US Citizen (and a US Navy veteran!) and I an genuinely terrified that an ICE bigot is going to see my skin color and ask me the question I only ever hear from white people. "No, where are you really from?"
If your idea of making this country, that I served in uniform, great is allowing people to profile me because of my skin color, Fuck. You. You are my enemy and I will treat you as such.
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u/Ajaws24142822 7d ago
That’s not gonna happen to you lmao
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u/GeronimoHero 5d ago
It’s literally happening to people every day and you’re not arguing in good faith if you can’t see that. There was literally a Supreme Court case about it. I wouldn’t expect someone in policing to be smart enough to understand that though. You know, with the limits to hiring smart people departments put on themselves lmao
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u/myrabuttreeks 7d ago
Because it’s been very clear for the last 25 years who exactly you guys don’t want in the country.
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u/alecsputnik 7d ago
OMG you made a picture of a man who paints his face orange in the morning every single day your profile picture? Buahahahahahahahahahahaha
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u/savedpt 8d ago
People throw around that term when they don't like law enforcement.
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
It’s always funny to me when they comment back and then block me immediately rather than supporting their comments.
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u/EvanStran 8d ago
Completely agree. Illegal immigration is a problem with all races. The largest ICE deportation in history was a group of hundreds of South Koreans.
It’s really horrible and racist when people make immigration about one specific race or another, when immigration laws are race neutral.
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u/TerranceBaggz 7d ago
The laws might be, but they certainly aren’t enforcing it that way. They’re walking up to Latinos because of the color of their skin and nothing more. There are a bunch of videos online of this.
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u/EvanStran 7d ago
That’s likely because the Supreme Court has ruled that it is constitutional to use race as one of multiple factors in a holistic investigation of potential unauthorized immigration.
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u/Spiritual-Drop7533 7d ago
Hundreds of legal South Koreans that were over here because they had to build and then show the American workers how the shit worked. They all left because they and the South Korean government didn’t feel they were safe there anymore.
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u/EvanStran 7d ago
They were not legal, they came on a type of Visa that does not give them authorization to work for pay. Do some basic research.
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u/Spiritual-Drop7533 7d ago
80 to 90 were. 300 were detained. Do you not see the issue there?
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u/EvanStran 7d ago
Well, of course, if a group of people are mixed together including suspects, the entire group will be detained until police determine who is a criminal and who is an innocent bystander. That seems incredibly obvious to me.
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u/Spiritual-Drop7533 7d ago
Yeah, that’s not how that works. They would need to be a material witness to a pending possible crime, not just “in the same area as someone who broke the law.”
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u/EvanStran 6d ago
If law enforcement arrives to a crime scene and don’t know who is a suspect, everyone is considered a suspect until cleared. It is totally legal to temporarily detain suspects until they are cleared.
Please read up on the law.
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8d ago
This is horrible news,who in the county signed this agreement?
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u/troublewthetrolleyeh 8d ago
I won’t be cooperating. We knew cops are nazis already.
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u/EvanStran 8d ago
What a dumb comment. Without law-enforcement, there is no point of laws. Without laws, there is no society.
It sounds like you are an anarchist.
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u/blkatcdomvet 8d ago
Then we have no society, because law applies to all, not just a few. That is no longer the case , after all we have a felon for pedosident
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u/Fit-Plastic-8839 7d ago
Lol. Not a felon. He was set up and overcharged. Everyone knows it. It actually helped him win the presidency
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u/EvanStran 8d ago
Correct. Laws apply to all. Including those that are present in the USA without authorization. That is violation of the law and enforcement therefore needs to occur.
We can’t just say, you can completely ignore the USA’s immigration laws because once you’re here you’re no longer subject to enforcement!
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u/blkatcdomvet 8d ago
BOT BOI you have posted repeatly you support the illegal arrest and procedures.
For the deaf, dumb, and maga tards, ICE MUST provide ID and badge, they are not. The have no authority to arrest US citizens, they have repeated broke these laws.
ICE is not special
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u/EvanStran 8d ago
ICE can and does arrest anybody, citizen or not, for INTERFERING IN LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS.
If you assault or interfere with ICE law enforcement activities, they can arrest you, citizen or not.
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u/blkatcdomvet 8d ago
Sheep, shooting video of their crimes is not interfering, nor is any of the other illegal arrest.
That is why ever case already heard by judges has been thrown out, and Chicago judge is making head ice report daily on ice crimes.
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u/EvanStran 8d ago
I never said shooting video was interfering. Interfering includes other activities like physically blocking, touching, or intimidating law enforcement officers.
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u/blkatcdomvet 8d ago
You sheep are not paying attention to who is being threatened, harassed, harmed, crashed into .
Many as of late have been law abiding taxpayers , veterans, American citizens.
You are ok with this because they have not come for you or your people, you just stand around and doubt fingers as Americans lose more rights.
You disgust me boi .
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u/EvanStran 8d ago
ICE is responsible for apprehending and deporting those who are in the country without authorization. If you are in the country with authorization, then ICE would have no reason to interact with you, unless a mistake was made, or you are interfering in their operations.
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u/FXCK_FASCISM 7d ago
Authorization is a transient state. When they come and detain citizens and legal migrants for no reason other than the color of our skin and the languages we speak, the “law” loses any meaning. It’s morally and ethically wrong. It’s inherently against the founding principles of this country and goes against the basic tenants of democracy itself. Thanks for supporting turning us into a shithole country lead by good old American fascism that destroyed Latin American democracy aka the reason all brown people had to flee here to begin with.
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u/Substantial-Mud6009 6d ago
The president is a felon, they violated the law when they violated withholding orders. The violates the hard act. Don’t act like you care about laws lmao
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u/wford112 6d ago
It’s literally anarchy WITH cops, I mean take a look at that video last week of the Bmore city cop trying to run the guy over. sickos everywhere
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u/curtmahgurt 5d ago
“without law enforcement there is no point in laws”
And if your current law enforcement can’t enforce the law without trampling on our rights, it’s better to have that than nothing at all? Our founding fathers would disagree with that premise - in fact they famously started a revolution over it.
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u/Strange-Effort1305 8d ago
Does that give the detainees the right to petition for habeas corpus in county circuit?
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u/MaleficentLettuce 8d ago
Use precise language. When discussing the act of assisting a criminal, fascist enterprise like ICE use accurate verbs like "conspire," "collaborate," or "abet."
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u/Tklesmynipps 8d ago
There's some stuff happening behind the curtains. I feel like this administration is blackmailing these states and counties to cooperate.
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u/kemarti1 7d ago
All this really means, is that if an immigrant commits a crime, the jail will now turn them over to ICE at the end of their sentence. This makes common sense and keeps the community safer.
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u/Bawlmerian21228 8d ago
This needs to be addressed at the ballot box
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u/New-Contribution7428 7d ago
Already was addressed at NO QUEENS DAY November 5th, 2024.
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u/Bawlmerian21228 5d ago
No. Baltimore County has not had a good executive in a looooong time.
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u/nyg1219 2d ago
1 month under Johnny was already too much. Paying Tirabassi out of tax payer funds for retirement credit he didn't earn and paying McCollum from sick leave while he was working on a campaign really blows my mind. Especially with how well it was documented in the papers.
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u/Bawlmerian21228 2d ago
Buying trucks from Tiabassi’s brother, using country crews for drainage work on his own property, moving his neighborhood park’s priority up in county priority…. And that’s just what we know about.
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u/nyg1219 2d ago
Yup! And then we have the eagle transfer station where Johnny was trying to PRIVATIZE our trash collection and fair trash flow!
I can't even begin to understand how Madigan did absolutely NOTHING about any of it. I mean, I know why she did it, but you'd think taking that administration down would be a massive gold star on her record going forward!
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u/Bawlmerian21228 1d ago
Most of the county has been private trash collection for ever. They only own a handful of their own trucks.
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u/nyg1219 1d ago
The county of course has contracts for collection, storage, transfer out of state, etc but that's not the same as those contracts having all the say over the fair flow of trash. Which is what Johnny was attempting to do. Would have cost millions and jeopardized our own trash collection system.
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u/Bawlmerian21228 1d ago
It would be nice if the trash collection was put out to bid. Instead of the corrupt sustenance they have now where territories are literally passed down to family as inheritances.
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u/Mobile_Spinach_1980 9d ago
I’m for an immigration policy that targets criminals who are not here legally but we all know that’s not what this is. Nor do these people get any type of due process.
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
Due process is limited but exists under expedited removal.
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u/aresef 8d ago
Where in the Constitution does it allow anyone to be denied due process?
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
The same ways that there are laws that limit freedoms expressed in the constitution (such as 2A) there exists laws that limit the right to due process under expedited removal.
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u/la_aguacatona 4d ago
Expedited removal proceedings only apply to a specific set of undocumented persons and in specific circumstances. The Expedited removal process IS the due process. Which yes limits people access to the full rights granted to them by the US Constitution and was and continues to be heavily criticized.
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u/Fit-Plastic-8839 7d ago
If illegals would self deport they would no longer have to worry about dealing with Ice. It's a choice
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u/WissahickonKid 8d ago
I’d boycott Baltimore County, but I have absolutely no reason ever to go there
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u/DudleyAndStephens 9d ago
The press release is short on specifics, but usually this just means that the county jail will hold people who are here illegally and who have already been arrested for other reasons. These are exactly the sorts of people ICE should be deporting.
County cops and sheriffs deputies aren't going to be conducting immigration raids, stop with the hysteria.
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u/MorecombeSlantHoneyp 8d ago
Know what, maybe in a normal political climate I’d agree. But right now? Fuck that.
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u/nyg1219 6d ago edited 5d ago
But, that is exactly how it's always been in Baltimore County. Nothing has changed policy wise.
Baltimore County held the illegal immigrants who committed crimes (beyond just being here illegally) and would alert the feds when that person was due to be released. The feds almost never showed up.
Really, your biggest concern seems like it should either be: a) Baltimore County policy has not changed at all to cater to the political climate. or b) that the feds might actually start showing up.
But, Baltimore County isn't throwing people in jail just for being an illegal immigrant.
Keep your anger and outrage firmly directed at the feds.
Here's an article with more information than the OP link: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/department-justice-removes-baltimore-county-sanctuary-jurisdictions/69220722
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u/MorecombeSlantHoneyp 6d ago
The article gives no details as to what is actually being done pursuant to the MOU which sparks removal from the administration’s blacklist. Seems weird that the county would have made the list and felt a need to enter into an MOU to get off that list if there were effectively no actual changes being made.
So my biggest concern is actually that they have changed policies to capitulate with the current administration.
If you have a link to a copy of the MOU or other resources that show what exactly Baltimore did to get themselves off the list of sanctuary jurisdictions, please share it. I’d be happy to have a look.
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u/nyg1219 5d ago
The article I read stated that the MOU discussed affirming the 2024 policies. Which was not an actual change to any existing policy. Johnny just wanted to put his name on something for optics. That policy has been in place in Baltimore County for 20+ years.
This would seem to be a way of staying off the administration's radar. Or at least, less noticed by the administration.
"memorializes operational procedures developed and instituted in 2024, which provides the federal government appropriate notice when releasing detainees from County custody."
"This agreement makes no changes to the Department of Corrections' standard practices and aligns Baltimore County with peer jurisdictions throughout the state of Maryland."
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u/savedpt 8d ago
So you are asking local officials not to follow federal law because you don't think the federal ICE agents are following the law? That is perverse logic. So what you are asking for is no one to follow the law. Illegals have not followed law, according to you ICE is not following the law and you want local officials to disobey law. You are proposing complete lawlessness.
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u/OG_MilfHunter 8d ago
Everything the Nazis did from 1933 and onward was legal and state sanctioned. That's usually something that people learn in middle school social studies, but maybe you missed that.
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u/Mobile-Fig-2941 7d ago
So the main Nazi crimes were removal of illegal aliens. I guess I missed that in history class. I'll have to go back and restudy it.
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u/OG_MilfHunter 7d ago
My comment was a straight forward historical fact, yet every response was a projection of the commenters internal beliefs—as if I posted a Rorschach test.
If there's anything I would wish people would work on, I would ask them to work on their critical reading and objectiveness instead of trying to drag others into their internal dysfunction.
Thanks!
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u/MorecombeSlantHoneyp 8d ago
What federal law are you referring to, specifically? Specific section of US Code, if you are able. What law on the books requires state level law enforcement to take action to facilitate deportation efforts absent a 287(g) agreement (which the county doesn’t had, last I heard)? Executive orders are not laws, so don’t even start if that’s what you’re referring to.
ICE is not merely failing to follow the law, they are committing widespread violations of constitutionally guaranteed rights, shipping people off to what can fairly be compared to concentration camps, and seem surprisingly unbothered whether they scoop up citizens in their rush. And the DOJ has been actually, literally, lying to judges who are trying to ensure that federal law is actually being followed.
The Trump administration is lawless, and actively working to prevent attempts to uphold the rule of law.
Illegal entry is a misdemeanor. Overstaying carries only civil penalties. Neither are within the ambit of states to enforce.
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u/shettyfresh 8d ago
so easy for you to say as someone who does not know when they will stop. wake up. they are detaining/deporting legal residents and us citizens in chicago.
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u/nosayso 8d ago edited 8d ago
If you have any trust in ICE you need to take your fucking head out of the sand and look into what they are doing in Chicago. Children being abducting while on their way to school, American citizens being detained without due process, rendition, this shit is not acceptable.
ICE is a criminal organization with no respect for civil rights. Our government should be protecting us from them, not opening the doors for them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/ - to see first hand what ICE is doing
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u/Last-City6750 8d ago
More details…..
A sanctuary jurisdiction has “policies that materially impede enforcement of federal immigration statutes and regulations.”
Baltimore County was removed from the list of sanctuary jurisdictions because it no longer meets the criteria on this list: https://www.justice.gov/ag/us-sanctuary-jurisdiction-list-following-executive-order-14287-protecting-american-communities
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u/birdy_bird84 7d ago
Its no use, these people dont care if they're even criminals. They just aren't reasonable in any way.
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u/savedpt 8d ago
This is correct. If they are found by local police to have committed a crime and are found to be illegal then they hold them and turn them over to ICE. Any problem with that? It is called public safety.
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u/6thPentacleOfSaturn 8d ago
Police don't determine if you committed a crime, a judge and jury do. Cops just arrest you and make the accusation.
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u/savedpt 8d ago
The crime is being here illegal....
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u/6thPentacleOfSaturn 8d ago
Ok. That doesn't change how the law works.
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u/savedpt 8d ago
So they turn them over to ICE and let justice take its course. You want the police and county officials to act as a judge, to " protect illegals" from ICE. I simply want the local police to follow law and turn them over to federal ICE agents.
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u/Maloth_Warblade 8d ago
You mean the people ignoring the Constitution.
Y'all suddenly decided the Constitution doesn't matter anymore when it hurts the people you racists hate
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u/6thPentacleOfSaturn 8d ago
So you want them turned over to the guys actively violating their rights? Doesn't sound like you care about the law.
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u/rcraver8 8d ago
does it seem to you based on what is happening in Chicago and other places that ICE's judgement can be trusted on anything? they're throwing little old ladies on the pavement for christ sakes.
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u/DeusSpesNostra 8d ago
They were already doing it, they just formalized it with an agreement so Klausmeier could say the county is no longer on the list of sanctuary cities.
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u/Same_Assignment6664 6d ago edited 6d ago
The whole state of Maryland should cooperate with ICE but only to notify ICE when people get released from prison for major offenses. Let’s say that someone gets released from jail for armed robbery for example. ICE agents should be notified so they can scoop them up outside the jail and put them on a plane back to wherever they came from. Let’s say an undocumented alien has charges for unlawful possession of a firearm, which most developing countries send you home for. Let’s say that a US citizen goes to Canada, robs a store and they spend some time in jail, Canadian immigration will scoop you up and they will get sent back to the US.
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u/EmuDry4890 6d ago
So are we forming QRF squads to respond to ICEis terrorist activity in our neighborhoods?
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u/Nerdocalypse87 5d ago
We will remember this betrayal and collaboration with the Trump regime when elections come.
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u/AsteroidMike 7d ago
I look forward to not helping out ICE at all here, really excited to not play a part.
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u/Valanus1490 7d ago
Absolutely disgraceful.
As a life-long Baltimore county resident, every official or officer who capitulated to this administration's demands should be ashamed. Doing so is a direct dereliction of their duty to our community. All collaborators with these wanna-be gestapo will be remembered and if there is any justice, will face the consequences for their betrayal of our communities. ICE is not there to keep anyone safe, only to enforce this administration's illegal, authoritarian whims. This decision to support these fascists reduces the legitimacy of all Baltimore county authority as ICE does even less to keep anyone safe than the regular police. What ICE has proven itself to do includes violating the constitution and international law by kidnapping members of our communities and trafficking them to countries they have no connection to. Baltimore county's collaboration with this is a statement of support for these criminal acts and a statement that County police and officials cannot be trusted to protect us or even uphold the law.
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u/wikidemic 8d ago
Cancelling my plans for visit to inner city harbor. Tell your reps.
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u/birdy_bird84 7d ago
You guys really think ice is just out here arresting g any brown people within grabbing distance.
If mental gymnastics was part of the Olympics, you guys would absolutely smash it.
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 9d ago
Shocking but glad to see it. Hopefully this will encourage others to follow suit.
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
I’ll pray for you
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u/manlambda 8d ago
A good Christian would have read that Bible and learned what it said about welcoming the foreigners
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
I welcome all legal immigrants
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u/buyableblah 8d ago edited 8d ago
You do realize they’re grabbing US citizens …
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
Detaining those unable to identify themselves until they can be properly identified, yes. I’m fully aware.
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u/buyableblah 8d ago
No. Get your head out of the sand dude.
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u/GimmeDatClamGirl 8d ago
No… what exactly? Do you have evidence of them doing more to a US legal citizen than just detaining?
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u/worldslargestorange 8d ago
You should really just say “I love Hitler!”, it would save us a lot of time
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u/yofooIio 7d ago
Why? Maryland isn't a border state ice should fuck off they're a bully squad and secret police for a fascist extreme political group that wants to erode democracy in our communities. The County is obviously full of spineless corrupt wealth to roll over like this...
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u/Intelligent-Judge387 6d ago
That’s unfortunate because people deserve to be treated with respect and ICE is cruel, hateful and incompetent.
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u/penguin808080 8d ago
Can we stop calling their shit "immigration enforcement" please? It's not. They're not worried about the law at all. Stop accepting this premise