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Professor Maureen Sweeney was quoted in "ICE arrests in MD nearly doubled in 2026. The growth was driven by people with no criminal record," in the Maryland Daily Record on Nov. 11, 2026.
Sweeney is director of the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice at Maryland Carey Law.
Maureen Sweeney ... said she sees “a big disconnect between the administration’s rhetoric about … keeping the country safe from dangerous people and what’s actually happening.” What is happening, she said, is that ICE is “targeting and rounding up anybody who’s a non-citizen … especially people who are brown or Black and look different from white Americans.