Blue-state lawmakers consider bill to roll back sanctuary policies

Lawmakers successful Democrat-run Maryland are considering a measure to rotation backmost sanctuary policies and summation practice with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful definite scenarios.

Maryland’s Senate Bill 387, oregon the Protecting Marylanders From Violent Offenders Act of 2025, would necessitate section instrumentality enforcement and correction officers to crook implicit amerciable immigrants to ICE if the idiosyncratic was convicted of a convulsive crime, terrorism, information successful a transgression thoroughfare gang, oregon an aggravated felony specified arsenic trafficking drugs oregon firearms.

Republican Sen. William Folden, the bill’s author, told FOX45 Baltimore that the measure is "only for the astir convulsive offenders."

"This isn’t astir trying to crook immoderate communities against each other," Folden said. "This is astir keeping our communities harmless from these repetition convulsive offenders that immoderate jurisdictions support putting backmost retired into the assemblage and that’s not harmless for anyone."

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Officer manager Matt Elliston listens during a briefing, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, successful Silver Spring, Maryland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Critics of the bill, however, accidental the authorities threatens constitutional rights.

Sanctuary policies successful Howard and Prince George's County presently prohibit section authorities from cooperating with ICE agents. 

Maryland’s lawyer wide has besides issued guidance to section authorities connected migration detainers successful a 2025 memorandum, stating detainers "are requests only; section officers are not obligated to grant them, and, successful fact, hazard violating law rights by doing so."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hold to detain a person, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, successful Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Maryland bill, which is presently nether committee information successful the authorities Senate, would instrumentality effect connected Oct. 1, 2025, if enacted.

TRUMP DOJ SLAPS ILLINOIS, CHICAGO WITH LAWSUIT OVER SANCTUARY LAWS

Since taking bureau past month, President Donald Trump has conducted a sweeping crackdown connected amerciable immigration, with ICE officials making respective transgression arrests implicit the past weeks successful galore left-leaning "sanctuary" cities, including Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, and Washington, D.C.

While leaders successful immoderate sanctuary cities person refused to cooperate with ICE arsenic migration raids continue, Trump borderline czar Tom Homan delivered a bold connection to those cities: "We're going to support coming" nary substance what.

"They're not going to halt us," helium said Sunday, stressing that transgression amerciable migrant pack members specified arsenic Tren de Aragua person "no harmless haven" from the regularisation of law.

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"We're going to find them. We're going to apprehension them, and instrumentality them disconnected the streets," Homan said, referring to the transgression pack members.

Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.