ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents arrest criminal suspects in this file photo from 2019. (Photo courtesy Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
The Justice Department released a sharply reduced list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” Tuesday that identified Baltimore County as the only such jurisdiction in the state — a designation that Baltimore County officials insist is a mistake.
“Baltimore County is not a ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’. We believe our inclusion on this list was in error,” County Executive Kathy Klausmeier in a prepared statement after the release of the new list Tuesday. “Our Office of Law is currently contacting the Department of Justice to correct this mistake.”…