Washington, March 6 -- Representative Kweisi Mfume issued the following press release:
Yesterday, Congressman Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and U.S. Representatives April McClain Delaney, Steny Hoyer, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth,, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-MD) pushed back on the Trump Administration's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) plans to convert a warehouse located in Washington County into a 1,500-person immigration detention facility. In a letter submitted for DHS's comment period on the project, the lawmakers outlined serious concerns about ICE's severe lack of transparency on the purchase and preparations for the facility, ...