A vast country, filled with different cultures and traditions can’t be reduced to one narrow minded view of who belongs.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine’s immigrant welcome is contrast to border chaos
Towns and organizations are making sure that Portland doesn’t have to bear the burden on its own.
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Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Raids targeting undocumented immigrants set to begin within days
The nationwide sweep, which was postponed last month by President Trump and remains in flux, aims at people with final deportation orders.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Years after giving Epstein a cushy deal, Acosta is still enabling predators
His department has ignored visas for trafficking victims, depriving them of protection and increasing their risk of deportation.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Dana Connors: Green-card reforms would bring more willing, able workers to Maine
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act would benefit our state’s economy and its job creators.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Fighting for survival should not be a crime
Who is really to blame when a migrant father dies alongside the child he was trying to save?
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Response to discrimination must occur before genocide is on the horizon
Whatever the defining term, we need to focus on the degradation being funded by our tax dollars at the border.
Posted inNation & World, News
Border activist who aided migrants to be retried
Scott Warren will be retried after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on charges he gave water and food to migrants on the border.
Posted inNation & World, News
Girl recalls poor care in Texas border station
A 12-year-old girl locked in a Texas border station with her little sister says they were treated badly, slept on the floor, didn’t have enough food and weren’t allowed to bathe.
Posted inMaine, News
Asylum seekers defy death for a better life in Portland
Fleeing violence in their home countries, they endure a hellish journey from central Africa to reach a hoped-for haven in Maine.