Dem county executive dings Trump admin over sanctuary jurisdiction designation

In a connection responding to the inclusion of Montgomery County Maryland on a database of sanctuary jurisdictions successful the U.S., County Executive Marc Elrich accused the Trump medication of seeking to criminalize immigrants and "create fear."

President Donald Trump issued an enforcement bid calling for a database of sanctuary jurisdictions. DHS issued the database connected Thursday, the section noted successful a station connected X.

"We are not successful usurpation of national law, and we volition not beryllium making changes based connected governmental headlines. Montgomery County has ever cooperated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) successful cases involving convulsive crimes, superior felonies, and threats to nationalist safety. That has been and remains our policy," Elrich said successful his statement.

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Left: President Donald J. Trump participates successful an accomplishment ceremonial astatine the Amiri Diwan, the authoritative workplace of the emir, connected May 14, 2025, successful Doha, Qatar; Right: Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich during the Montgomery County Executive and 20th County Council Inaugural Ceremony astatine The Music Center astatine Strathmore connected Dec. 5, 2022 successful Bethesda, Md. (Left: Win McNamee/Getty Images; Right: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"This designation, similar galore different actions taken by this administration, is astir criminalizing immigrants, not protecting nationalist safety. We volition not beryllium complicit successful efforts to stigmatize oregon people our migrant communities," the Democrat declared. "These types of announcements are designed to make fear. But we bash not govern by fearfulness successful Montgomery County. We govern by the instrumentality and by our values."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the apprehension of an MS-13 subordinate successful a press release earlier this month, noting aggregate instances of the Montgomery County Detention Center failing to grant migration detainers for the idiosyncratic implicit the years, including conscionable past month.

"The Montgomery County Circuit Court successful Rockville convicted Amaya of attempted centrifugal conveyance theft April 4, and sentenced him to 3 years of confinement with 2 years, 5 months and 11 days suspended," the merchandise noted of Salvadoran nationalist Nelson Vladimir Amaya-Benitez. "On April 18, the Montgomery County Detention Center again declined to grant ICE’s migration detainer and released Amaya from custody."

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Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation Director Ben Stevenson acknowledged the "error."

"This idiosyncratic met the criteria we usage to notify and coordinate with ICE owed to a anterior felony condemnation and validated pack rank successful the DOCR records. We failed to marque this notification. We instrumentality afloat work for this error," helium said successful a statement. "Montgomery County has stated consistently that we cooperate with ICE successful cases involving individuals convicted of convulsive crimes, verified pack members, cause distributors & traffickers and different felony convictions. That argumentation remains successful place."

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Elrich said during a media briefing that "we goofed connected our part. We did not marque a argumentation determination to fto this idiosyncratic go."

The Trump medication has been aiming to crackdown connected illegal immigration and is seeking to region galore individuals from the state aft monolithic numbers of radical flowed crossed the U.S. borderline during President Joe Biden's administration.