State: ICE’s claims for detention center ‘border on absurd,’ court should block construction

By: Steve Crane

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: April 10, 2026

Words: 963

Last Updated: 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

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A federal judge needs to extend his order blocking work on an immigration detention center in Washington County, because a federal government promise to pause work could “lift at any moment, in secret and without warning,” the state argued Thursday.

That was part of a filing with U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson in the latest turn in Maryland’s lawsuit seeking to block Department of Homeland Security plans to convert an 825,000-square-foot warehouse near Williamsport …

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