Federal and state laws still require schools to serve students who are learning English, but Maine educators worry the change could be a sign of future impacts on funding or obligations to multilingual students.
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Immigrant owners are preserving Maine’s variety stores and markets
New Mainers are buying and operating village markets and variety stores across the state, often in rural areas where they are preserving the only retail access to gas, groceries and other necessities for miles around.
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Posted inLocal & State, Religion and Values
How Maine churches are reckoning with fear of immigration raids
Faith leaders are working to set up protocols for interacting with federal agents and ensuring immigrants know their rights, as well as helping to launch an ICE watch initiative.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, News
As global conflicts rage, Seeds of Peace participants gather in Maine to sow connection
The annual summer program brings together young people from regions in turmoil to help them foster dialogue, leadership skills and reconciliation in a peaceful setting.
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Judge restores legal protections for Haitians, says Trump administration overstepped authority
Maine immigration advocates warned that hundreds of people living in Maine to escape wars, gang violence and natural disasters would have faced deportation within weeks had the administration terminated their legal protections.
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Mainers from Iran reflect on recent U.S. bombing of native land
Maine is home to several hundred people with roots in Iran who are now wrestling with the U.S. bombing of 3 nuclear facilities last weekend.
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Travel ban raises fears across Maine’s immigrant communities
Families are canceling travel plans, curbing social media activity and struggling to understand how Trump’s restrictions will affect them.
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Sen. King joins call to preserve protected status of Afghans in US
Maine’s independent senator was among 101 Senate and House members who signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State
As Maine diversifies, so does its health care workforce
The number of workers in health care in Maine identifying as non-White is up 143% in the past decade.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Waterville welcomes immigrants with New Mainers Project
“I have many friends in the city. I know many people. I feel it’s like my village,” Hasan Sif Eddin, who came to Waterville from Syria, said at an event Wednesday night.