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

In a letter to Maryland’s senators, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security blamed extendedwait times at its controversial Baltimore holding room on a state law that shuttered longer-term ICE facilities inside Maryland. Homeland Department Secretary Kristi Noem also wrote in her June 5 letter that the detainees in the Baltimore facility designed for short stays are treated with “respect and dignity” and are housed to meet required federal standards.

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

As federal immigration agents sweep the Baltimore region, making arrests as part of President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, their efforts have begun drawing in local police. In recent weeks, at least two such interactions have generated videos that spread quickly through social media, highlighting new challenges for Baltimore-area law enforcement called in to help protect federalimmigration enforcement agents.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | John-John Williams IV |Gisela Salomon

The Department of Homeland Security said this week that it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked and that they should leave the country. The termination notices are being sent by email to people who entered the country under the humanitarian parole program for the four countries, officials said on Thursday.

2 weeks ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | John-John Williams IV |Ellie Wolfe

Last spring, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine was embroiled in controversy. Sherita Golden, the school‘s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, faced a firestorm of online attacksthat caught the attention of Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk. Critics took issue with her definition of privilege, which named white people, heterosexuals and middle-aged people among those who benefit from it.

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

Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced that citizens from 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States,Marylanders with strong ties to the local immigrant community affected by the ban reacted with shock and outrage, anxious about what might come next. The ban takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m. for Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.