Marc Elrich is the second-term county executive in Montgomery County, the most populous county in Maryland. In 2019, Elrich signed the “Promoting Community Trust Executive Order,” which made Montgomery County a sanctuary county for illegal immigrants.
Elrich was very proud of this decision that the county would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which the Washington Post called the “strongest in D.C. region.”
“It’s not just symbolic that I did this,” Elrich said. “This legally codifies what I said I was going to do, and residents can have this assurance.”
Earlier this month, a 2-year-old named Jeremy Poou Caceres was shot and killed at 5:30 p.m., a few hundred yards across the county line from Montgomery County. The man just arrested for complicity in this killing is a serial criminal illegal immigrant whom Elrich twice shielded from deportation.
Nilson Granados-Trejo entered the country illegally a few years ago, and in late 2022, an immigration judge ordered him deported. He didn’t leave.
In March of last year, Montgomery County police arrested Granados-Trejo, and ICE tried again to have him deported. According to news reports, the county refused to cooperate with ICE, and thanks to Elrich, he stayed in the country.
Then, in September, the Montgomery County Police Department arrested him again and charged him with theft again. Once again, ICE tried to get its hands on him. Once again, due to Elrich’s policies, ICE couldn’t.
Now, allegedly, Granados-Trejo was part of a drug-related shootout that resulted in Jeremy’s death.
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Now, Elrich is saying he will end his experiment with pro-crime civil disobedience and begin cooperating with the authorities. But the consequences of his virtue signaling cannot be reversed.
Elections matter. Policy matters. Electing Marc Elrich has been a huge mistake for Montgomery County, and now, it may have contributed to the death of a 2-year-old.