type: timeline_event Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed emergency legislation banning state and local law enforcement partnerships with ICE, terminating nine active 287(g) agreements. The emergency legislation bypassed normal legislative timelines in response to the rapid expansion of ICE enforcement operations and documented abuses during operations in other states.
Maryland became one of the most significant states to erect legal barriers against local-federal immigration enforcement cooperation, joining a growing network of state-level resistance to the administration's immigration agenda. The emergency bill passed both chambers of the Maryland General Assembly with bipartisan support, reflecting broad concern that the deputization of local police as immigration agents was undermining community safety and diverting limited law enforcement resources from violent crime.