People arrested in Prince George's County have been reviewed under the program since 2009. Scott Peterson, a spokesman for County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, said it "has been a controversial program in the county and the Baker administration has continued to [study] our legal options."
In Baltimore, Rawlings-Blake met with ICE officials last year to "express our concerns about the program and how it would impact Baltimore's immigrant communities" and wrote in the letter that she had been assured the agency would not begin implementation before holding discussions with local immigrant groups.
