Daniel Zawodny

1 week ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | John-John Williams IV |Daniel Zawodny

Maryland’s U.S. Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks decried the “appalling situation” unfolding in the holding rooms at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Baltimore Field Office in the city’s downtown. The letter sent today to the federal secretary of homeland security and acting ICE director comes after a recent visit by the staffs of the senators.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Daniel Zawodny

State lawmakers once again carved out $1.5 million for Baltimore’s Greenway Trails Network months after the city fumbled the same amount away. The allocation was part of a verbal floor amendment to the state’s capital budget introduced over the weekend that Del. Mark Edelson, a Baltimore Democrat, said took quite a bit of finagling. He and the rest of the Baltimore delegation fought for it because they “believe this project deserves that level of priority,” Edelson told The Baltimore Banner.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Daniel Zawodny

Kevin Gomer filed into the MARC commuter train hours before the sun came up, three meals packed, listless not from lack of sleep, but rather from the stress of workplace uncertainty that awaited. His procurement work at the National Institutes of Health was mostly paused as the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, slashes federal spending. But new in-office policies meant he would carry out his lighter workload that day from behind a desk in suburban Montgomery County.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Daniel Zawodny |John-John Williams IV

A judge will hear arguments Friday afternoon from both the Department of Homeland Security and counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran resident of Beltsville who the government said this week was deported after an “administrative error.”U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, sent Abrego Garcia last month to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, a notorious prison for the country’s infamous gangs.

3 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | John-John Williams IV |Daniel Zawodny

More than 1 million immigrants live in Maryland. But they are not all here under the same terms and conditions. An estimated 225,000 are undocumented, a prickly term that could be used to describe someone who crossed the border illegally and hasn’t sought a status; a person in the process of applying for status that is yet to be granted; or someone whose status has expired, like when overstaying a visa.