Today: July 26, 2026
Maryland’s new law officially ends 287(g) partnerships, preventing local police from acting as federal immigration agents. Governor Wes Moore emphasized the legislation protects due process and requires judicial warrants, while ensuring state authorities continue to cooperate with federal partners to prosecute violent…
(Pamela Wood/The Banner) Let’s stop pretending this is complicated. When the government takes away someone’s liberty, even in civil immigration detention, it is exercising one of its most serious powers. It is not paperwork. It is not logistics. It is confinement. HB0630…
A sign reading, “Senate in session. Members only” stands outside an entrance to the Maryland State Senate chamber. Jan. 9, 2019. | Patrick Semansky/AP Today, the Maryland Senate is considering SB0245, a bill that addresses a serious failure in how immigration enforcement…
The “Free America Walkout” on January 20, 2026, represented a watershed moment in coordinated protest organization—with simultaneous demonstrations unfolding across all 50 states and multiple strategic locations throughout Washington, DC. The movement demonstrated how digital organizing tools and decentralized leadership enable synchronized…
Montgomery County Council introduced two significant bills on January 20, 2026, designed to limit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations on county property and restrict federal immigration enforcement tactics. The measures—the County Values Act and the Unmask ICE Act—represent an escalation in local resistance to…
How Trump’s Tariffs Accelerated Global Realignment Europe absorbed Trump’s tariff shock without retaliation. Canada pivoted to Beijing. China’s trade surplus surged to $1.2 trillion. What appears to be American economic strength masks a deepening strategic failure: the world is no longer organizing…
Gary Tan, CEO of Y Combinator—the world’s largest startup accelerator—was direct in his September 2025 assessment of Trump’s new H-1B visa policy: “This won’t bother big tech,” he told Fortune. “But it will kneecap startups.” For mid-market manufacturers and emerging tech companies,…
TANTV Investigate The woman is not a criminal fugitive in Ghana. She is not a Ghanaian citizen. She is Rabbiatu Kuyateh, a nurse from Prince George’s County, Maryland—a mother and grandmother who has called the United States home for 30 years. Just…
Montgomery County Council President Natali Fani-González has introduced the “Trust Act” (Expedited Bill 35-25), a landmark legislative move to permanently limit local cooperation with federal civil immigration enforcement. The bill, announced December 4 with unanimous council support, codifies existing executive orders into…
In a Thanksgiving Day social media post, President Donald Trump said he plans to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” tying the pledge to his broader push to remake U.S. immigration policy after a shooting near the White House. The…
