Hundreds rally against ICE as judge agrees to block detention center construction

By: Rhiannon Evans

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: April 15, 2026

Words: 751

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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A federal judge on Wednesday limited further construction on a planned Washington County immigration detention center, saying the government’s plans for the facility and its impacts on the environment were unclear and inconsistent.

U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson said that environmental injury, “by its nature, can seldom be adequately remedied” by monetary damages and is often permanent. Those concerns, he said, are exactly what’s at stake if construction were to continue at the site.

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