AG​ Brown filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s unlawful construction of a massive federal immigration detention center in Washington County, Maryland. The lawsuit challenges the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) purchase of a warehouse near Williamsport for conversion into an immigration detention facility – a major federal project, conducted behind closed doors, and without the requisite environmental review, public participation, or state consultation.

“The Trump Administration will stop at nothing to pursue its extreme immigration agenda – including breaking the law. DHS purchased this facility while keeping the State and the public in the dark, spending more than $100 million in federal taxpayer dollars without performing the required environmental review and without giving Maryland or Marylanders any voice in the process. We will not allow this Administration to treat laws like suggestions and threaten our people or their communities.” – AG Brown