Former MD Governor Hogan: law enforcement will ‘ignore’ ICE emergency bill

WASHINGTON (TNND) — On Thursday, former Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan weighed in on the current Governor Wes Moore’s recent emergency bill, prohibiting local law enforcement cooperation with ICE.

The bill Moore signed into law would stop local law enforcement from creating new partnerships that allow state authorities to detain noncitizens for 48 hours and end all existing partnerships with ICE by July. (TNND)

All the local law enforcement are saying we’re going to ignore that because we’re required to work with them,” Hogan said at Thursday’s Politico Governor’s Summit in Washington, D.C. “When they have violent criminals that they’re holding in jail that ICE wants to be detained, they shouldn’t be let back on the streets. So there’s two sides to this argument,” Hogan added.

The bill Moore signed into law would stop local law enforcement from creating new partnerships that allow state authorities to detain noncitizens for 48 hours and end all existing partnerships with ICE by July. The Maryland Democratic Governor also spoke at Thursday’s summit.

There is no political party that made me. In fact the Democratic party put millions of dollars to try and stop me from winning. I don’t answer to the Democratic party. I don’t answer to party bosses. I answer to the only people who made me the Governor of Maryland which is the people of Maryland,” Moore said.

Maryland is just the latest Democratic state to ban local partnerships with ICE. New Mexico and Maine recently passed similar laws, joining California, Illinois and Washington, among others, which already had bans in place. Virginia also terminated state-level ICE agreements earlier this year.

I think it’s extraordinarily important to make sure we’re celebrating and honoring and recognizing the strong vetting, the strong training and the incredibly high standards that here in the commonwealth of Virginia we hold our law enforcement agencies to,” (D) Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger said in January.

While speaking at the summit, Hogan also took a shot at how Minnesota officials responded to ICE’s heavy enforcement, calling it an example of what not to do.

The mayor and the governor blaming the president. The president blaming the mayor and the governor, and yet no one was talking about what was actually going on in the streets,” said Hogan.

After signing the emergency bill, Moore pledged to still coordinate with ICE on the lawful removal of noncitizen offenders who pose a public safety risk.