"The proposal is among several anti-ICE bills that Maryland Democrats have crafted ahead of the General Assembly session that begins Wednesday. The party holds supermajorities in both chambers, and leaders in the House of Delegates and Senate will also be considering outlawing the controversial 287 (g) programs that deputize local law enforcement to help with federal law enforcement and forbidding ICE agents from wearing identity-concealing masks. California enacted similar anti-masking laws, the “No Secret Police Act” and “No Vigilantes Act” in September. In the Trump administration lawsuit to stop it, the Justice Department argued that only the federal government can regulate federal agents. “The laws would recklessly endanger the lives of federal agents and their family members and compromise the operational effectiveness of federal law enforcement activities,” the Justice Department wrote in court documents that cites a Department of Homeland Security news releases asserting a 8,000 percent increase in death threats against ICE law enforcement. “The threats to federal officers are serious and potentially deadly,” the government argued in the lawsuit. “They range from taunting, online doxing, and stalking, to 'vehicles being used as weapons toward’ officers and even bounties being ‘placed on their heads for their murders.’”"