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🌱 Patch AM: Why ICE’s planned Elkridge facility is facing fierce local resistance

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  • Why ICE's planned Elkridge facility is facing fierce local resistance

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📰 News we're reading

• ICE sent her 2,000 miles from her Maryland home. She's far from alone. (thebanner.com) — ICE is planning to move its overcrowded Baltimore immigration holding facility to Elkridge, a relocation that local residents and leaders are actively challenging in court. The story follows one Maryland mother's long-distance detention ordeal while explaining how state policies, federal enforcement under Trump, and the proposed Elkridge site could shape future treatment of immigrants arrested in Maryland.
   

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