New Maryland Bill Means ‘More Victims’ Of Migrant Criminals, DHS Warns

Maryland legislation cracking down on police cooperation with 🛂Immigration officials will put violent aliens back on the streets, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured sex offenders, a murderer and an MS-13 gang member in Maryland while ICE partnerships were active, a DHS spokesperson said in a Monday statement. Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed his party’s bill on Tuesday, banning contracts known as 287(g) agreements, a once-obscure tool that the Trump administration used to build law enforcement alliances across the country. The change could make future ICE arrests of dangerous people harder, the department said.

“This legislation will make Maryland less safe,” the spokesperson said. “When politicians bar local law enforcement from working with DHS, our law enforcement officers have to have a more visible presence so that we can find and apprehend the criminals let out of jails and back into communities.”

Illegal immigrants arrested in Maryland include a Salvadoran convicted of homicide and larceny, another Salvadoran convicted of assault and lewd or lascivious acts with a minor, a third convicted of incest with a minor and other sex offenses and a fourth linked to MS-13 and convicted on a weapon possession charge, the DHS said. A fifth arrestee was a Peruvian illegal immigrant with strongarm rape, rape with a weapon, sexual assault and sex offense convictions, according to the department.