The House is likely to pass the measure too, but Trump will likely veto it.
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Commentary: Texan offers Mainers a practical primer on U.S. Border ‘patrolling’
Given a new chief Border Patrol agent’s plans to expand warrantless searches here, Mainers should prepare for challenges to their constitutional rights.
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Jim Fossel: Collins took right tack to oppose Trump on wall
She rightly supports a new vote to undo the president’s emergency declaration, and rightly opposed a Democratic plan to block funds for it and other projects.
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Pentagon OKs military construction funding to build border wall
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery is one of the 127 projects that could be affected, but department officials won’t release details until Wednesday.
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Commentary: Trump’s thuggish border policies aren’t working
Two nuggets of information from the federal government last week paint a stark portrait of failed government policies toward migration. Despite President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed approach — belligerence, threats, tariffs and mass detentions designed to dissuade would-be immigrants from trying to cross the border and enter the United States — apprehensions exceeded 144,000 people at […]