April McClain Delaney
The only Maryland Democrat to repeatedly back and expand Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. April McClain Delaney votes with MAGA 22% of the time.
“None of us thought that Project 2025 would come into fruition.”
- April McClain Delaney
12/22/2025
Why did April McClain Delaney vote with MAGA 22% of the time?
Click the video above to watch April McClain Delaney say, “Sometimes you have to work with the administration and work across the aisle.”
April McClain Delaney’s Votes
- The only Maryland Democrat to repeatedly back and expand Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
- Voted with Trump nearly twice as often as any other Maryland Democrat.
- Voted for a bill that left domestic violence survivors vulnerable to deportation if they reported the abuse they were experiencing.
- Voted to support a bill that allowed law enforcement to detain immigrants without judicial review.
- Voted for a bill that would make it easier for ICE to deport and bar immigrants permanently from the country without due process and a conviction.
- Supported a resolution thanking ICE for protecting the Homeland.
Why did April McClain Delaney vote with MAGA on immigration?
Click the video above to watch April McClain Delaney say, “Sometimes you have to work with the administration and work across the aisle.”
Billionaire April McClain Delaney’s Financial Gain
- April McClain Delaney has invested up to $25 million in a hedge fund that invested in the largest private prison giant in the country. [Politico, 10/24/16]
- April McClain Delaney has invested up to $100,000 in Teledyne stock, which specializes in border surveillance and has over $1 billion in government contracts. [Teledyne Technologies 2024 Annual Report]
- Teledyne technology will be used in newly constructed ICE detention facilities. [Outfitting of Miami Correctional Facility for ICE Detainees]
- She is funded by thousands of dollars from lobbyists and lobbying firms for ICE contractors like Palantir, which is setting up a nationwide AI-powered surveillance network for ICE, and Axon, which is arming ICE agents with Tasers and ammunition.
- Attacks Trone for self-funding, while she and her husband have self-funded nearly $50 million in the last fifteen years for their elections.
April McClain Delaney was the only Maryland Democrat who voted to allow ICE to detain people without criminal convictions or due process.
April McClain Delaney’s Immigration Actions Timeline
January 3, 2025
McClain Delaney is sworn into office.
January 16, 2025
13 Days in Office
McClain Delaney is the only Maryland Democrat to vote for Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) MAGA H.R. 30 bill that allows ICE to jail and deport domestic violence survivors who come forward to report abuse. [The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25] [congress.gov/house, House Roll Call Vote 17]
H.R. 30 was opposed by the Coalition of Labor Union Women (AFL-CIO), the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Law Center, and 200 additional groups working to fight domestic violence.
What Dems who voted against McClain Delaney and Trump said
(This Bill would) “endanger and discourage victims of domestic violence, including legal migrants, from coming forward by allowing those who acted in self-defense or who were wrongly accused to be subject to the same deportation process.”
- Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) [BobbyScott.house.gov, 1/16/15]
THE RESULT: H.R. 30 put survivors of domestic violence at risk of deportation and contributes to the further demonaization of immigrant communities.
April McClain Delaney voted with 213 Republicans
January 22, 2025
19 Days in Office
- April McClain Delaney
What Dems who voted against McClain Delaney and Trump said
- Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) [judiciary.senate.gov, 1/13/25 ]
McClain Delaney's excuse when called out on voting with Trump?
“(I don’t think I totally focused as much as I should have on the ‘accused of a crime’ [part],” she said “but I will say that this was in the beginning of my term. And I never thought that ICE immigration and the horror of what has happened would happen.”)”
- April McClain Delaney
[The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25]
What Dems who voted against McClain Delaney and Trump said
“(This bill) allows us to get up and demonize immigrants without doing anything to fix the immigration system, and to act tough without actually making America safer or solving any of the problems within the immigration laws.”
-Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on the Laken Riley Act, which which expands ICE’s ability to detain lawful immigrants without a conviction. [House Floor Debate, 1/16/25]
THE RESULT: The Laken Riley Act eroded due process and allows law enforcement to detain immigrants without judicial review.
April McClain Delaney voted with 217 Republicans
February 5, 2025
33 Days in Office
February 13, 2025
41 Days in Office
McClain Delaney is the only Maryland Democrat to vote for a MAGA bill that makes it easier for ICE to deport and bar immigrants permanently from the country without due process and a conviction. [congress.gov, House Roll Call Vote 42]
THE RESULT: H.R. 35 does not require a conviction and, disturbingly, includes no exceptions for children or those acting under duress.
April McClain Delaney voted with 214 Republicans
March 15, 2025
71 Days in Office
Marylander Kilmar Abrego Garcia is illegally deported to CECOT prison in El Salvado as widespread deportations to El Salvador occur. [abcnews.com, Timeline: Wrongful Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, 4/7/26]
April McClain Delaney said nothing.
July 29, 2025
207 Days in Office
The majority of Maryland’s Democratic Congressional delegation attempts to conduct an oversight visit to the Baltimore ICE detention center. They are denied entry and stage a sit-in in protest. McClain Delaney is not in attendance and does not mention the visit anywhere, not on any official or campaign social media or press releases. [MarylandMatters.org, Maryland Delegation Denied Access to Inspect Baltimore ICE Facility, 7/29/25]
- April McClain Delaney
[The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25]
August 14, 2025
223 Days in Office
Numerous members of Maryland’s Democratic Congressional delegation return to the Baltimore ICE detention center for a follow-up visit. McClain Delaney remains silent and again does not attend or mention the visit anywhere. [wypr.org, Maryland Lawmakers Seek Answers After Touring Baltimore ICE Facility, 8/14/25]
Where was McClain Delaney?
April McClain Delaney was a no show and said nothing.
September 8, 2025
248 Days in Office
April McClain Delaney was a no show and said nothing.
October 2, 2025
272 Days in Office
April McClain Delaney was a no show and said nothing.
October 4, 2025
275 Days in Office
December 11, 2025
342 Days in Office
David Trone publicly enters the MD-6 primary.
McClain Delaney first mentions the word “ICE” in an official communication from her Congressional office. [mclaindelaney.house.gov, Congresswoman McClain Delaney Demands Transparency in Letter to ICE, 12/11/25]
December 22, 2025
353 Days in Office
McClain Delaney first expresses regret for her vote for the Laken Riley Act nearly a year earlier. [The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25]
“I don’t think I totally focused as much as I should have on the ‘accused of a crime’ [part], but I will say that this was in the beginning of my term. And I never thought that ICE immigration and the horror of what has happened would happen. None of us thought that Project 2025 would come into fruition.” [The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25]
February 13, 2026
406 Days in Office
Less than 6 weeks after saying she regretted not focusing enough on her vote to lock up innocent immigrants, she flip flops again and doubles down on supporting Laken Riley.
While trying to whitewash her past votes by claiming on WAMU that she is “the most and biggest proponent for immigrants,” and yet also stated, “I think Laken Riley was an act that if you are illegally here as an immigrant, it was for violent crimes.” Meanwhile, legal and nonviolent immigrants have been snatched off the street and held without due process by ICE. [wamu.org, The Politics Hour with Kojo NNamdi, 2/13/26]
Sources:
- The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25
- April McClain Delaney has invested up to $100,000 of stock in Teledyne, which specializes in border surveillance and has over $1 billion in government contracts [Teledyne Technologies 2024 Annual Report]
- [House Floor Debate, 1/16/25]
- 1/16 (replacement for citation 1 and 8): [clerk.house.gov/votes, Roll Call 17, Bill Number H. R. 30 and congress.gov/house, House Roll Call Vote 17]
- Bobby Scott quote (citation 7): [BobbyScott.house.gov, 1/16/15]
- 1/22, citation 2: [clerk.house.gove, Roll Call 23, Bill Number S. 5]
- 1/22, citation 9: [judiciary.senate.gov, 1/13/25
- 1/22, citation 13: [The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25]
- ⅖ (guantanamo bay): [CBSnews.com, Trump Administration Sends First Group of Migrant Detainees to Guantanamo Bay, 2/5/25]
- 2/13, citation 3: [congress.gov, House Roll Call Vote 42]
- 2/13, citation 10: [ChuyGarcia.house.gov, Congressman Garcia’s Statement on His Vote Against H.R. 35, 2/12/25]
- 3/15: [abcnews.com, Timeline: Wrongful Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, 4/7/26]
- 7/29 (baltimore ice visit): [MarylandMatters.org, Maryland Delegation Denied Access to Inspect Baltimore ICE Facility, 7/29/25]
- 7/29, with No one thought 2025 would come to fruition: [The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25]
- 8/14: [wypr.org, Maryland Lawmakers Seek Answers After Touring Baltimore ICE Facility, 8/14/25]
- 9/8: [abcnews.com, Chicago Immigration Enforcement Surge Begins With 3 Arrests: ICE, 9/9/25]
- 10/2: [usatoday.com, 800 Arrests Amid Chicago Immigration ‘Blitz’ of Helicopters and Midnight Raids, 10/3/25]
- 10/4: [cnn.com, Text Messages and a Moved SUV: How the Government’s Case Against a Chicago Woman Shot by a Border Patrol Agent Fell Apart]
- [mclaindelaney.house.gov, Congresswoman McClain Delaney Demands Transparency in Letter to ICE, 12/11/25]
- [The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25]
- The Baltimore Banner, 12/22/25
- wamu.org, The Politics Hour with Kojo NNamdi, 2/13/26