Maryland congressional members are outraged by the Department of Homeland Security’s purchase of a warehouse to possibly serve as an immigrant detention center in Hagerstown.
Rep. April McClain Delaney (D), who represents western Maryland, says she is working with the governor’s office and local leaders to demand answers from DHS.
“Planning a detention facility behind closed doors is not governance — it is intimidation. For DHS to make such egregious plans in the cloak of darkness is yet another example of a lawless agency hellbent on harassing, assaulting, and killing our neighbors,” McClain Delaney said in a statement to WYPR. “Last week, I stood alongside hundreds of residents across Western Maryland to deliver a clear message to the Trump Administration: we do not want this facility in our backyard. Our communities will not be steamrolled, and our neighbors will not be targeted in silence. We will organize. We will show up. We will speak out.”
