Prince George’s County, Maryland, is one of two locations vying to be the future location of a brand new, $1 billion FBI headquarters.
The county is competing with Springfield, Virginia, to host the new headquarters. The possible locations for the new complex in Prince George’s County are Greenbelt and Landover.
Prince George’s County also happens to be a “sanctuary” jurisdiction, making its consideration for the location of the new FBI headquarters — which is slated to lease offices to agencies involved in immigration enforcement — all the more paradoxical.
In 2014, the county’s Department of Corrections announced it would no longer honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers without a warrant signed by a judge that demonstrates probable cause.
“This campus is to include offices for ICE and Border Patrol, yet it will reside in a jurisdiction that openly violates federal law,” Sue Payne, a member of the Remembrance Project and former Baltimore-area radio who is concerned about the impact of these laws on her community’s quality of life, told LifeZette.
“PG County … is an openly declared sanctuary jurisdiction for illegal aliens. The police do not honor ICE detainers,” Payne continued. “How do you put an FBI campus that represents the law enforcement agency in this nation into a jurisdiction that open violates federal law?” she asked.
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