County Move to Bar ICE Detention Site Prompts Developer to Sue

March 5, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

The revocation of permit enabling ICE to build a temporary detainee facility in Howard County, Md., has drawn a real estate developer’s lawsuit.

Genesis GSA Strategic One LLC claims the suburban Baltimore county violated the US constitution and a federal civil rights law by backing off the project Feb. 2 after the county falsely claimed it learned only then “that ICE would occupy the building,” according to a complaint filed Wednesday at the US District Court for the District of Maryland.

The suit highlights a Howard County Council bill that “purports” to prohibit non-government-owned facilities such as the Elkridge, Md., ...

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