Some members of the president’s team want the number to be 15,000 or fewer.
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Maine Voices: Support for open borders will be Democrats’ undoing in 2020
Voters (and opinion writers for liberal newspapers) oppose free care for illegal immigrants, decriminalizing illegal crossings and other conspicuously bad ideas.
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Maine joins states questioning deportation of immigrants who need medical care
The attorneys general ask federal officials how immigrants with severe medical conditions can request deportation deferrals going forward.
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Immigrant children with special medical status ordered to leave U.S.
Immigrant advocates in Boston say federal authorities are unfairly ordering foreign born children granted special immigration status for medical treatment to return to their countries
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New Trump rule would let U.S. hold migrant children indefinitely
The Trump administration is moving to end a long-standing federal court agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention.
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Bill Nemitz: Onward and upward – from the shelter steps to Maine businessman
Maxwell Chikuta relied on General Assistance and food stamps when he first arrived in Portland from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sixteen years later, he’s got a Ph.D. and just opened his second business.
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Migrant children separated at border were harmed, abused in foster care, families say
Taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $200 million in damages as a result of the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy.
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Judges rule that food, soap, sleep essential to migrant kids’ safety
A federal appeals panel dismisses a Trump administration bid to limit what must be provided.
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Portland shuts emergency shelter as last asylum seekers move out of Expo
Many are relocating to apartments or host homes in communities from Saco to Brunswick.
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Maine Voices: We’d be worse off if immigrants went back where they came from
Many of the people we love, and the people who have contributed to our country, could trace their roots to other places.