Baseless rhetoric, like the kind expressed at recent protests in Portland, overlooks the agency’s contributions to national security and public safety.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Federal judge blocks Trump order allowing states, cities to reject refugee resettlement
Three national refugee resettlement agencies argued the order illegally conflicts with the 1980 Refugee Act.
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Posted inBooks, Lewiston-Auburn
New book brings more attention to Lewiston’s Somali community
Cynthia Anderson’s “Home Now” offers a portrait of a city coping with an influx of immigrants and discovering in the process a path to a brighter future.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
To overcome Trump’s travel ban, some Americans are taking it to court
The third version took effect in December 2017, keeping citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and North Korea, and government representatives from Venezuela, from traveling or immigrating to the United States.
Posted inNation & World, News
U.S. awards immigration detention contracts in California
A law taking effect Jan. 1 bans contracts for for-profit prisons, but ICE said the contracts are not subject to the new state law.
Posted inMaine, News
Influx of asylum seekers fills Portland’s overflow shelters
Nearly 170 people, most from sub-Saharan Africa, have arrived in Portland in the past three weeks and city officials say they’ve run out of space to shelter them.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Tom Waddell: There’s no ‘national suicide’
What’s important is that citizens follow the Constitution, not where they or their ancestors came from.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Compass: Stop use of immigration ‘iceboxes’
A Mainer reports on her conversations with asylum seekers stuck on the Mexican side of the southwest border.
Posted inMaine, Nation & World, News
Portland’s facilities accommodate newly arrived asylum seekers
City officials say they were able to handle the 28 people without having to open any overflow gymnasiums.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Helping asylum seekers, and others, helps Maine
There’s no reason the state has decide between giving migrants short-term aid and doing the same for other residents.