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BALTIMORE, MD – Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from converting a warehouse near Williamsport, Maryland, into a mass immigration detention facility. The motion comes after the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on March 11 immediately pausing any construction or retrofitting of the warehouse. The Court has since extended the TRO to April 16 to allow for briefing and consideration of today’s preliminary injunction motion.
In its motion for a preliminary injunction, Maryland is asking the court to bar Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from constructing, retrofitting, or operating the Williamsport Warehouse as an immigration detention facility while this litigation remains ongoing.
On February 23, 2026, Attorney General Brown filed a lawsuit against DHS and ICE challenging the purchase and planned conversion of a warehouse near Williamsport, Maryland in violation of federal administrative and environmental law.
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