Agents based in Houlton arrest a Haitian national and make nine drug seizures during the 11 hours they stopped southbound traffic on the interstate in Penobscot County.
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Virginia governor orders investigation after immigrant children claim abuse
Children at an immigration detention facility said they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.
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Melania Trump’s ‘I don’t care’ jacket causes a stir
Her spokeswoman said there ‘was no hidden message’ behind the outfit the first lady wore getting on a flight to visit a facility housing migrant children.
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Sen. Collins says legislation needed to guarantee end to family separations at southern border
The Maine Republican says questions remain about the president’s executive order halting the policy, and a bipartisan group of more than a dozen senators met in her office to discuss possible bills.
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Skowhegan protesters decry Trump administration’s immigration policy
The people gather on the Margaret Chase Smith Bridge said the policy change anouncement the president made Wednesday is irrelevant, because it still means innocent children will be locked up.
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Maine advocates still concerned over fate of immigrant families
President Trump promised to end families’ separation at the Mexico border Wednesday, but his executive order also seeks to override a law limiting the time children can stay in detention facilities.
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LePage plans to send helicopter, 2 National Guard pilots to U.S.-Mexico border
Governors of several other states on the East Coast, including two Republicans, had pulled their National Guard resources before Trump reversed course and ended the ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy that resulted in children being separated from their parents.
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Rep. Pingree to visit Texas facilities where children separated from parents are detained
The Maine congresswoman will join a group of more than 20 Democratic colleagues at the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday.
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In reversal, Trump signs order stopping family separation
Images of young children in tears, housed in metal cages, set off international outrage.
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US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children
The new estimate comes as backlash widens over President Donald Trump’s’ decision to separate parents and children.