Towns and organizations are making sure that Portland doesn’t have to bear the burden on its own.
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Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Raids targeting undocumented immigrants set to begin within days
The nationwide sweep, which was postponed last month by President Trump and remains in flux, aims at people with final deportation orders.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Dana Connors: Green-card reforms would bring more willing, able workers to Maine
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act would benefit our state’s economy and its job creators.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Fighting for survival should not be a crime
Who is really to blame when a migrant father dies alongside the child he was trying to save?
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Response to discrimination must occur before genocide is on the horizon
Whatever the defining term, we need to focus on the degradation being funded by our tax dollars at the border.
Posted inNation & World, News
Girl recalls poor care in Texas border station
A 12-year-old girl locked in a Texas border station with her little sister says they were treated badly, slept on the floor, didn’t have enough food and weren’t allowed to bathe.
Posted inLocal & State, News
The Road to Portland
Families from central Africa face oceans, jungles, mountains, rivers, bandits, sickness, starvation and wild animals to escape political violence in their home countries and travel the long road through Latin America to Portland, Maine.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Asylum seekers defy death for a better life in Maine
Fleeing violence in their home countries, they endure a hellish journey from central Africa to reach a hoped-for haven in Maine.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
McConnell rejects Democrats’ demands to change $4.6 billion border bill
Democratic demands include more protections for the children, such as setting medical and hygiene standards at facilities, and a requirement that any death of a minor be reported within 24 hours.
Posted inNation & World, News
Head of Border Protection steps down as outrage grows over migrant children
The government has moved more than 100 children back to a remote Border Patrol station in Texas where children were caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.