Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz signs an executive order in April 2017 "Upholding Law Enforcement Standards on Immigration Status, Diversity and Equity." Photo credit: John Lee / WYPR.
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz signs an executive order in April 2017 "Upholding Law Enforcement Standards on Immigration Status, Diversity and Equity." Photo credit: John Lee / WYPR.

In 2017, then-Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz signed an executive order, in part to protect immigrants who are in the county jail from federal authorities.

That order remains in place.

But there are those who believe that executive order is threatened by a recently signed agreement between the county and Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.