Bowdoin College was among many schools whose international students would have had to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges hold classes entirely online this fall.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: ICE order takes aim at higher education
Once again, the president chooses denial over working to help mitigate COVID’s impact.
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Posted inNation & World, Uncategorized
Judge abruptly reverses order to have fact-finder investigate South Florida ICE jails
MIAMI — Just hours after appointing an independent fact-finder to investigate possible “inhumane conditions, deliberate indifference and cruel and unusual punishment” at three South Florida immigration detention centers, a Miami federal judge abruptly reversed her order Monday without explanation. In an eight-page scathing order filed earlier in the day, U.S. District Court Judge Marcia G. […]
Posted inLocal & State, News
Groups call on Mills to meet with them, take bolder action on COVID-19 racial disparity
Recent data shows that Maine has the worst racial disparity for Black residents in the nation for COVID-19 cases, as infection rates rise among minority communities in Cumberland and Androscoggin counties.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: ‘Dreamers’ need more than high court’s reprieve
Immigrants who grew up in America and know no other home deserve permanent status and a path to citizenship.
Posted inNation & World
Trump says he’ll try again to end DACA protections for Dreamers
Through executive action, the president could still take away the ability of 650,000 young immigrants to live and work legally in the U.S.
Posted inNation & World, News
Supreme Court rules against attempt by Trump administration to end DACA
The justices rejected administration arguments that the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program is illegal.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Alain Nahimana, who founded Maine immigrant center, has died
Nahimana was executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center and a longtime advocate for immigrants.
Posted inLocal & State
Some taxpayers, including Waterville couple, get shut out of stimulus, prompting challenge to federal law
Anyone who doesn’t have a Social Security number or is married to someone who doesn’t is ineligible to receive payments. That includes many immigrants who have tax ID numbers.
Posted inNation & World, News
Detained immigrants plead for masks, protection from virus
The coronavirus is spreading in immigration detention, with more than 70 detainees in 12 states testing positive and hundreds of others under quarantine.