The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement received a strong rebuke from a federal judge over its decision to skip the environmental review process for a Maryland warehouse the agency plans to convert into a detention center.
The state’s lawsuit against the Trump administration “provides a crystal-clear example of a federal agency failing to comply with the basic requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act,” said Judge Brendan Abell Hurson of the US District Court for the District of Maryland.
In an opinion released April 17, Hurson issued a preliminary injunction blocking the US Department of Homeland Security agency from ...