Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D.) urged a White House official not to send the unaccompanied minors to a border facility in Westminster, Md., Politico reported.
O'Malley told White House domestic policy director Cecilia Muñoz in a phone call on Wednesday not to send the children to the Carroll County facility. This came after O'Malley publicly disagreed with the president's plan to deport the children. The governor said sending the children back would sentence them to a "certain death."
The Westminister facility was one of four potential sites to house the children in Maryland, according to the Baltimore Sun.
O'Malley was concerned that the children could be "harassed, or worse," due to the facility location being in "a conservative part of the state," Politico reported.
