The state will have to add an estimated 158,000 trained people to its workforce by 2025 to maintain economic growth, Educate Maine tells participants at its annual symposium.
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Posted inNation & World
Supreme Court’s conservatives seem ready to let Trump end ‘dreamers’ program
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protects 660,000 immigrants who came to the United States as children and are here illegally.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Immigrant wins on Election Day are good news for Maine communities
Several first- and second-generation Americans were elected to office Tuesday, helping local governments look more like their communities.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Trump’s demonization of immigrants is nothing new. But it’s time to say ‘no more’
Speak out against his rhetoric, and against elevating an immigration hard-liner to homeland security secretary.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Federal immigration response sends very confused message
While Congress comes up with almost $900,000 to assist asylum seekers in Maine, the president is slamming the door.
Posted inNation & World, News
ICE criticizes judge’s ruling restricting use of unreliable immigrant databases
The databases at times have led to the wrongful detention of U.S. citizens.
Posted inLocal & State
Artwork from children in detention camps coming Saturday to Waterville
Mary Dunn, who has traveled to the U.S. and Mexican border, is helping to organize the exhibit, as well as a silent auction fundraiser Oct. 12 at Hathaway Creative Center to help asylum seekers with humanitarian aid and legal services.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Near-shutdown of refugee resettlement program is bad for Portland
New Americans make the city more prosperous, our schools more diverse and our restaurant scene more interesting.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Trump administration officials consider further restricting U.S. refugee cap
Some members of the president’s team want the number to be 15,000 or fewer.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Support for open borders will be Democrats’ undoing in 2020
Voters (and opinion writers for liberal newspapers) oppose free care for illegal immigrants, decriminalizing illegal crossings and other conspicuously bad ideas.