MARYLAND (WBFF) — Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown sued the Trump administration on Monday in an effort to stop plans to convert a Washington County warehouse into a 1,500-bed immigration detention facility.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for Maryland, is largely based on the Department of Homeland Security’s alleged failure to comply with environmental review procedures before spending $102.4 million to buy the warehouse in Williamsport. The federal government purchased the over 825,000-square-foot facility in January, prompting Gov. Wes Moore and other Maryland officials to sound off over what they called a lack of transparency.
“They spent more than $100 million of taxpayer money on this purchase without telling anyone,” Brown, a Democrat, said in a recorded statement. “No public notice, no consultation with the state, no known environmental review. They just did it.”
Earlier this month, the Washington County Board of County Commissioners expressed support for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Spokespeople for the DHS and ICE’s Baltimore field office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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