Maryland
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Maryland (MD) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Maryland counts here.
This is not the same set as Maryland's jurisdiction page, which records the 1 entry where Maryland's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
11 entries · 9 places
One square per place, sized equally, coloured by how many entries landed there. Ordered most-documented first: a grid of equal tiles has no reading order of its own.
Baltimore city 3 entries
ICE re-detained Baltimore man in defiance of federal release order, moved him toward deportation to Eswatini
On March 9, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement re-detained Ibrahim Mohammed, a Baltimore-area Ethiopian man, roughly five weeks after a federal judge in Louisiana had ordered his release and found ICE's prior detention of him unconstitutional. ICE served Mohammed a Notice of Revocation of Release on March 10 and moved him toward the airport for removal to Eswatini, a country he had never been to, before U.S. District Judge John deGravelles issued an emergency five-day restraining order blocking his deportation. DeGravelles found no evidence Mohammed had been given the process his own order required before either the re-detention or the planned third-country removal.
Baltimore Mayor Scott's administration cut off Inspector General's IT access; Cumming said it jeopardized whistleblower confidentiality
On January 24, 2026, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott's administration, through the city's Office of Information & Technology, cut off Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming's office from administrative access to city IT systems and heavily redacted records subpoenaed as part of her investigation into the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE). The city said the access removal addressed a Law Department attorney-client privilege violation; Cumming said it stripped her office's ability to monitor who accesses sensitive systems, including whistleblower complaints and ethics files, calling the action "unprecedented."
ICE arrested and detained U.S.-born Maryland woman for 25 days despite documented citizenship evidence
ICE arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, during a December 14, 2025 traffic stop in Baltimore and detained her for 25 days across five facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and New Jersey, despite her Laurel, Maryland birth certificate, hospital and immunization records, and birth-witness affidavits. DHS disputed her citizenship, citing a 2023 Customs and Border Protection encounter near Lukeville, Arizona, and an in-absentia removal order issued in January 2025, while a federal judge barred her removal pending litigation and she was released January 7, 2026 under ICE supervision.
Anne Arundel County county 1 entry
Anne Arundel County, Maryland schools narrowed LGBTQ+ student confidentiality rule to open gender-identity records to parents after federal threat
On August 18, 2026, Anne Arundel County Public Schools revised Administrative Regulation JQ-RA, "Safe and Inclusive Environments for LGBTQ+ Students," adding language stating that nothing in the regulation limits parents' right under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to inspect their child's complete education record. Superintendent Mark Bedell told the school community the next day that the amended text reaches "any information maintained in education records that relates to gender identity, transgender status, sexual orientation, preferred name, or preferred pronouns." The revision followed a July 27, 2026 joint enforcement action by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, which threatened the district with litigation or loss of federal funding over that same confidentiality provision.
Bethesda city 1 entry
FBI searched home and office of former national security adviser Bolton; Trump privately directed investigation toward vocal critic
On August 22, 2025, FBI agents searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former national security adviser John Bolton as part of a classified-information investigation. Bolton, a vocal Trump critic since leaving the administration in 2019, was not detained and no charges were filed at the time. The Washington Post reported that Trump had privately pointed a finger at Bolton in the days immediately preceding the raids, while the Biden-era Justice Department had reviewed the same underlying materials and declined to prosecute.
Frederick city 1 entry
ICE agents drove vehicles onto sidewalks and struck observers with batons during a Frederick, Maryland raid
On the evening of September 4, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drove vehicles onto sidewalks and struck observers with batons in Frederick, Maryland's Taskers Chance neighborhood, where agents had staked out a residence for roughly 40 hours pursuing a man ICE described as a "criminal illegal alien" who fled a vehicle stop. City Council President César Díaz and Vice President Katie Nash, both on scene, said observers formed a human barrier in front of the targeted home but were not violent; no arrests were made and it was not clear anyone inside the home was detained.
Germantown city 1 entry
ICE detains Iranian Ph.D. student Yousof Azizi and moves to deport him after BBC Persian commentary on U.S.–Iran war
Federal immigration agents detained Yousof Azizi, a 40-year-old Iranian Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech, outside his Germantown, Maryland home on April 13, 2026, and the Trump administration is moving to deport him. ICE has transferred him through facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona; his wife, his lawyers, and CAIR say the action is retaliation for his Persian-language media commentary on the U.S. war on Iran, while DHS says he misstated prior involvement with Iran's Student Basij Organization on his visa application and that his student visa was terminated after he failed to re-enroll at Virginia Tech for Fall 2025.
Glen Burnie city 1 entry
ICE agents shot and wounded man during Glen Burnie, Maryland arrest; agency's account of second injured man was contradicted by county police
On December 24, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded Portuguese national Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins during an immigration enforcement operation in Glen Burnie, Maryland, after ICE said he drove a van at officers. A second man, Salvadoran national Salomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, was also injured; Anne Arundel County Police disputed ICE's initial account that he had been riding in the van, saying he was already in ICE custody in a separate vehicle when he was hurt. DHS later revised its account, telling CNN that Serrano-Esquivel had been a passenger in an ICE vehicle rammed by the fleeing van, not in the van itself.
Greenbelt city 1 entry
GSA and FBI scrapped Congress's mandated Greenbelt, Maryland headquarters site, redirecting $1.1 billion to the Reagan Building
On July 1, 2025, the General Services Administration and FBI Director Kash Patel announced the FBI would abandon its planned move to Greenbelt, Maryland — a site GSA had selected in 2022-23 under a congressionally appropriated $1.1 billion project — and relocate instead into the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. Maryland and Prince George's County sued in November 2025, and a federal judge ruled in August 2026 that the switch violated federal law and blocked it.
Hagerstown city 1 entry
ICE moves forward with Hagerstown warehouse-detention construction in defiance of Baltimore federal judge's injunction
On May 14, 2026, The Washington Post reported, citing an internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo, that ICE staffers were "exploring what work can be done" at a Hagerstown, Maryland warehouse being converted into a 1,500-person ICE detention facility despite a Baltimore federal judge's standing temporary injunction blocking the project. The Baltimore judge had found the building's four toilets and two water fountains insufficient for the planned capacity. The Hagerstown build-out and operations contract was awarded in March 2026 to KVG LLC, a Pennsylvania-based defense contractor with no prior experience operating detention facilities, with a $113 million base and a $642 million three-year ceiling.
Salisbury city 1 entry
ICE agents smashed car window to forcibly remove Salisbury, Maryland mother after school drop-off
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 24-year-old Vanessa Parrazal in Salisbury, Maryland on December 17, 2025, minutes after she dropped her daughter off at Pinehurst Elementary School. When Parrazal did not exit her vehicle, agents smashed the driver's-side window and forcibly removed her, an encounter witnesses captured on video and neighbors described as traumatizing. ICE said Parrazal resisted arrest and was extracted for officer safety, while Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis said the agency had lawful authority to make the arrest.