WT: A proposal to turn Maryland into a “sanctuary state” by limiting local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities died in the State House on Monday after lawmakers withdrew the bill — which had garnered a veto threat from the governor and a rebuke from Trump administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
In one of the first big state-level challenges to the administration’s tougher line on illegal immigration, the original bill would have prevented police from inquiring about a person’s immigration status during a stop or detention and blocked jail officials from holding people past their release dates so immigration agents could detain them. Read more
Partially O/T – I’ve always thought that Maryland’s state flag is the ugliest in the union.
For a state that’s owned by the district of corruption and driven by libtards? No surprise here.
I wish I could selectively obey only the laws I agree with and ignore the ones I don’t.
how does one go about gaining this exceptional status in our country ?
move over barrock and hillary, I want this special status too.
Too bad. Think of all the money the federal government could have saved not sending any to Maryland.
“how does one go about gaining this exceptional status in our country ?”
Looks like you’ll have to, at least, register as a Dem. Trans-indian-manchild.
Bill, yes. We wouldn’t have this problem if all inhabitants of this country withdrew their U.S. citizenship and declared themselves to be individual sovereigns.
riverlife_callie,
I agree about the flag. In fact Maryland politicians should immediately redesign it without those pesky, triggering, white privilege, Christian crosses.
Being a native Marylander, born in fact in the capital Annapolis, I should be glad to see this but it has been a very long time since I renounced my state “citizenship”. Now I’m only glad insofar as any state’s govt has been thwarted in enacting a sanctuary statute.
As for the Maryland flag, it is the heraldic banner of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore (1579–1632), and it is indeed the ugliest state flag. It stands out, though.
“Maryland State Flag. The Maryland flag contains the family crest of the Calvert and Crossland families. Maryland was founded as an English colony in 1634 by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. The black and Gold designs belong to the Calvert family. The red and white design belongs to the Crossland family.”
(Reference: 50states.com/flag/mdflag.htm)
Funny, but I took my Refrigeration Exam at Crossland High School some years ago and the exits were locked with chains and padlocks! I graduated from Oxon Hill in 71 and Crossland was known as … uhh … sort of a “bad” place, even then.
Happy to be free of Maryland – but I loved the Calvert County flag with the tobacco leaf on it – even though tobacco is anathema in MD, as it is in most places.
izlamo delenda est …
Nice to see its not liberal dimwitted politics 24/7 in Maryland.
That flag looks like something representing court jesters. Ironically, could be apropos given the liberal Maryland legislation.
Too late.
The message that even entertaining such legislation gets thru to all who hear it. MD joins NJ,DE,NY,PA in chasing away productive citizens who refuse to live in states that view them only as revenue sources.
You’d think they would have learned something when they trashed their recreational boating industry a few years ago by threatening to raise boat registrations by 1000%. Stunad.
I’ve considered the state flag (regardless of the history) to be pretty unattractive. Like that counts for anything.
@ Tim Crossland/Oxon Hill.. wow. That was recent farmland working on ugly thugurbia back then. It has not improved with time. I had a friend who graduated from there around that time. Went on to U of MD and was pictured in that yearbook throwing a molotov. Chained and locked doors on the HS was not a whim.
Calvert and the tobacco leaf.. what is not widely know in the Master Settlement Agreement is that farmers were legally barred from disseminating how tobacco is cured. Neat, eh? So the farmers went to farmettes and family farm agri, supplying local eateries with produce exotica. But don’t you get ideas and such (see farm to table prosecutions).
Veering back on topic, Maryland has this particular cancer to cull, along with the vote-buying dems. Proximity to DC means that the swamp in so many flavors is fed from this state and NoVa.
http://www.aim.org/special-report/casa-de-maryland-the-illegal-immigrants-acorn/
@ former Chesapeake boater, ITA. I was a sailmaker way back (not that I liked the sail crowd all that much, ahem), and the hits were suicidal.
@Rosalind, I had to look up ITA, lol
By spooking the boaters, they closed marinas, waterside restaurants, supply stores. Major economic carnage.
In addition, boaters for years paid a pump-out fee to dispose their waste at marinas instead of into the Bay. The fund was to be used to maintain waterways (dredging, safety signs, etc). As is usual, the Legislature grabbed that money when they were broke and claimed that boaters don’t pay enough to support their sport.
Shameless bastards never even apologized when the truth came out.
When I sold my boat, the broker said in his 30 years he never saw boats being bought were LEAVING Maryland at a rate of 90%.
Are you telling me that someone in Maryland actually has a brain?