July 28, 2025
“It was abundantly clear that the people working in this facility have been instructed to hide the horror of the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.” – Senator Alsobrooks
We will not let this cover-up continue – we will continue pushing for accountability and the humane enforcement of our immigration laws.” – Senator Van Hollen
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Angela Alsobrooks, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and Representatives Kweisi Mfume, Glenn Ivey, Johnny Olszewski, Jr., and Sarah Elfreth (all D-Md.) conducted oversight on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Baltimore and on the President’s draconian and inhumane tactics he is employing – throwing innocent people in jail, housing undocumented people in awful conditions, snatching people off the street, and more. The lawmakers were denied access to the facility despite it being within their constitutional authority to conduct Congressional oversight.
After the visit, Senator Alsobrooks remarked:
“It was abundantly clear that the people working in this facility have been instructed to hide the horror of the inhumane treatment of the people in their custody.”
She continued:
“And the man behind it all – Donald Trump – clearly does not care about any of us.
“His inhumanity is not limited to the people of these facilities.
“We recently had the awful flood in Western Maryland. People’s lives were disrupted and their homes and livelihoods taken away. And what is the response of this Administration: deny Maryland disaster relief. You know why?
“Because he couldn’t care less, really, about any of us.”
Senator Van Hollen remarked:
“Donald Trump told the American people that his Administration’s immigration policy would focus on ‘the worst of the worst,’ detaining dangerous criminals. That’s a targeted approach that we could support, but it was a lie. In reality they are pursuing a cruel mass deportation agenda where scores of people – the vast majority of whom pose no public safety threat – are held under inhumane conditions at places like this Baltimore ICE office and shipped off without any due process. Congress has a legal authority and responsibility to conduct oversight, but the Trump Administration refuses to let the American public see the truth. We will not let this cover-up continue – we will continue pushing for accountability and the humane enforcement of our immigration laws.”
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