A bill the author sponsors would punish cities that harbor noncitizens and provide them with publicly funded services.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Interfaith Scarborough dinner brings new neighbors together
St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Building Bridges event allows those of different backgrounds to break both bread and barriers.
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Posted inPolitics
Trump sends mixed message on his immigration plan
In a luncheon with TV news anchors, the president says he might be open to a bill that would provide millions with a pathway to legal status.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Court refuses to delay Trump travel ban case
The administration says it is drafting a new travel ban order addressing concerns raised about the original.
Posted inNation & World
Agency to begin awarding Mexico wall contracts in April
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will request bids on or around March 6.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
It’s hard to understand Rep. Lawrence Lockman’s fear of immigrants
Immigrants actually make U.S. cities better, not worse, and Lockman’s fear-mongering cannot change that simple truth.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Fear of harmless people can turn the Constitution into forgotten fragment
Remembering how we treated Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, when will we learn that fear is blind?
Posted inNation & World, News
House Speaker Paul Ryan leads delegation to border with Mexico
The trip to the Rio Grande Valley comes as Congress debates how to pay for President Trump’s campaign promise of building a wall to keep out undocumented immigrants.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine needs immigrants to fill worker shortage, business leaders say
Encouraging people to move to Maine is especially critical to address the problem of the state’s aging workforce, says Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce.
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Texas hunters who claimed they were shot by ‘illegal aliens’ actually shot each other, authorities say
The Presidio County Sheriff has concluded that the hunters’ story, which galvanized anti-immigrant sentiment in the border states, was fabricated.