# Trump Is Turning Warehouses into ICE Detention Camps. Can Maryland Stop Him?

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast-1085016/trump-is-turning-warehouses-into-ice-detention-camps-can-maryland-stop-him
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast-1085016/trump-is-turning-warehouses-into-ice-detention-camps-can-maryland-stop-him.md
Podcast: [The Real News Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast-1085016)
Published: 2026-04-10T18:13:56+00:00
Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/trump-is-turning-warehouses-into-ice-detention-camps-can-maryland-stop-him--71237507
Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71237507/dly_soniakumar_hagerstown.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-real-news-podcast-1085016/episodes/trump-is-turning-warehouses-into-ice-detention-camps-can-maryland-stop-him
Duration seconds: 1859

## Resource

In the small town of Williamsport, MD, about an hour and a half from Baltimore, the Department of Homeland Security purchased a massive shipping warehouse for $102 million with plans to turn it into an ICE detention center. But local efforts to expose, delay, and shut down the Trump administration’s heinous plans for this makeshift concentration camp are growing. A broad coalition of local officials, faith leaders, and civil rights organizations have filed an amicus curiae brief in the State of Maryland v. Noem lawsuit, urging the US District Court for the District of Maryland to halt DHS’s rushed plan to convert the massive Williamsport warehouse into a large-scale immigration detention center. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Sonia Kumar, a senior staff attorney at ACLU of Maryland, who is part of the team of legal representatives who filed the brief. Additional links/info: ACLU of Maryland website , Facebook page , X page , and Instagram ACLU of Maryland, “ Community leaders, elected officials, and civil rights organizations challenge DHS’s secret, rushed plan to convert Hagerstown warehouse into mass immigration detention center ” Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “ ‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland ” Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “ The chilling truth behind ICE’s detention warehouses ” Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “ Meet the data analysts exposing ICE’s plans Credits: Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support . Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer. Follow us on: Bluesky: @therealnews.com Faceb…

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-real-news-podcast-1085016/episodes/trump-is-turning-warehouses-into-ice-detention-camps-can-maryland-stop-him/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast-1085016/trump-is-turning-warehouses-into-ice-detention-camps-can-maryland-stop-him.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.