Stalled U.S. immigration policy is limiting Maine businesses’ ability hire the workers they need to grow.
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Posted inNation & World, News
51 migrants die in trailer abandoned in San Antonio heat
The death toll was the highest ever from a smuggling attempt in the United States.
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Posted inNation & World
Biden, leaders reach migration pact despite attendance flap
‘The Los Angeles Declaration’ is being billed as a roadmap for countries in the Americas to host large numbers of migrants and refugees.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Federal immigration failures create local crisis in Maine
Gridlock in Washington has exacerbated suffering for people who are only trying to survive.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: ‘Great replacement’ lie runs deep in Republican politics
Party leaders tolerate radical anti-immigrant ideology, even as it motivates racist massacres like last weekend’s mass shooting in Buffalo.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Supreme Court could free Biden to end Trump asylum border policy
The heart of the fight is whether, with far less detention capacity than needed, immigration authorities must send people to Mexico or have the discretion to release asylum-seekers into the United States while they await their hearings.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Immigrant outreach is a smart move for Maine Republicans
A new multicultural center in Portland could signal a better approach to issues relevant to newcomers to America.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Report on Boston Asylum Office finds disproportionately low acceptance rates, bias against applicants
The office serving asylum seekers in and around Maine has the second lowest approval rate in the nation, according to a report by Maine immigrant advocacy groups.
Posted inPolitics
Republican challengers say Bruce Poliquin should pay attention to Maine instead of the Texas border
Liz Caruso and Garret Swazey said politicians need to focus more on needs of everyday Mainers, less on ‘grandstanding.’
Posted inNation & World
U.S. has reunited 100 children taken from parents under Trump
President Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.