The mother of a girl from El Salvador and the father of a boy from Honduras are brought to Connecticut from Texas.
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The Maine Millennial: An open letter asking LePage for intercession
Please pardon Lexius Saint Martin, and allow him to come home from Haiti.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Detaining immigrant children has become billion-dollar business
Health and Human Services grants to agencies that provide shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for unaccompanied children soared from $75 million in 2007 to nearly $1 billion in 2017.
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Border Patrol arrests man for illegally crossing into the U.S. from Canada
The man, a Mexican national, had been removed from the U.S. previously in 1994, agents said.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
Mayor and councilor pushing to give non-citizens the right to vote in Portland
The proposal calls for letting legal residents participate in municipal elections, but it faces legal and other hurdles.
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Waterville family hopes pardon will pave way home for deported father
A three-member pardon board will recommend to the governor whether Lexius Saint Martin, who is living in a hut in Haiti, should be pardoned for trafficking in cocaine a decade ago.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Only half of detained migrant children to be reunited with families by deadline
At least 50 immigrant children under age 5 will be released with their parents by Tuesday’s court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to reunify families forcibly separated at the border, a government attorney said Monday.
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago wants to hire 61 foreign workers
Trump has criticized U.S. companies for employing foreign workers, but has defended Mar-a-Lago’s hiring practices, saying there aren’t enough local applicants.
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Judge rejects blanket delay to reunite children at border
Hours before a hearing in San Diego, the Justice Department filed papers seeking an extension of the deadline, which is July 10 for all parents with children under 5 and July 26 to reunite everyone else.
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Rockland mayor questions intent of Knox County sheriff’s checkpoints
The chief deputy says the public safety stops are nothing new and have nothing to do with immigration.