Politicians and big business benefit from undocumented immigrants in different ways.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Modernizing U.S. foreign farmworker system isn’t just right – it’s critical
Farmers like us need multi-season access to the same highly skilled workers. Workers need that stability, too.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Review: Ken Burns’ new documentary spotlights how little the U.S. did to stop the Holocaust
‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ shows that Americans fell far short of their ideals in their treatment of Jews threatened with imminent murder in Europe. And the film suggests that the past is not past.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Immigrants may hold a key to solving Maine’s labor shortage
As more people leave the state’s workforce than enter it, new Mainers may play a vital role in filling the gaps.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
How to deal with climate refugees? Probably not like this
Proposals to force northern nations to accept migrants, and to geoengineer a cooler planet, could make our problems worse.
Posted inNation & World, New England, News, Politics
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida and Texas to Martha’s Vineyard
Republican governors are surprising Democrat-led cities and states with large influxes of migrants. Providing little or no information is part of the plan.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
DeSantis move to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard stokes confusion, outrage from critics
The flights marked the latest effort by politically ambitious Republican governors to send migrants to Democrat-led cities, which critics see as a cynical ploy.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Biden accuses Republicans of using migrants as ‘props’
The president spoke hours after two buses sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrived near Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Anti-immigrant ‘campaign’ reaches flamboyant new low
The shameful ferrying of migrants up the East Coast reduces men, women and children to political pawns.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Florida’s DeSantis defends sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Critics blast ‘inhumane’ stunt.
The flights were billed as part of a new program to ‘remove’ illegal immigrants from Florida, but a Massachusetts lawmaker said 1 of the flights originated in Texas.