City officials met with the protesters, who say they have been served expired food and worry about where they will go when the Expo closes in mid-August.
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South Portland asylum seekers get reprieve on hotel evictions
At least 60 asylum-seeking families were facing eviction from the Howard Johnson until a court granted them the right to stay through July.
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Migrants in Sacramento receive care as California officials weigh charges against Florida
Officials are investigating whether Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis was behind a flight that picked up asylum seekers on the Texas border and flew them – apparently without their knowledge – to California’s capital.
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Our View: With the right support, Maine can move beyond asylum seeker ‘inflection point’
Record numbers of people are seeking to resettle in Maine. If we can take necessary, lasting action, it does not have to culminate in crisis.
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View from Away: One answer to the migration crisis? Jobs
The Biden administration’s sensible new policy for asylum seekers — requiring them to submit applications in Latin American countries before arriving — seems to have preempted a wave of migration to the border, at least for now. But what about those the US has already legally admitted into the country, who are being blocked from […]
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Federal asylum rule change could affect flow of new immigrants into Maine
Immigrant advocates say they are worried that a new federal rule will broadly block access to asylum at the southern border. The new rule allows border agents to turn away asylum seekers if they haven’t first applied online or sought protection in a country they traveled through to reach the U.S. border. Most asylum seekers […]
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Title 42 has ended. Here’s what it did, and how U.S. immigration policy is changing.
The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border for the past three years.
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House Republicans pass new asylum restrictions as Title 42 ends
Democrats, who have a narrow hold on the Senate, have decried the aggressive measures in the bill as cruel and anti-immigrant, and Biden has already promised he would veto it.
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‘Now or never’: Migrants rush to U.S. border ahead of Title 42 expiration
The new policies crackdown on illegal crossings while also setting up legal pathways for migrants who apply online, seek a sponsor, and undergo background checks.
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Huge number of asylum seekers at U.S.-Mexico border as COVID-19 restrictions end, new rules begin
Many migrants, spurred by concerns that it may soon become harder to stay in the U.S., were trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border before Title 42 expires and the new rule takes effect at the end of the day Thursday.