A new multicultural center in Portland could signal a better approach to issues relevant to newcomers to America.
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Posted inMaine, News
Report on Boston Asylum Office finds disproportionately low acceptance rates, bias against applicants
The office serving asylum seekers in and around Maine has the second lowest approval rate in the nation, according to a report by Maine immigrant advocacy groups.
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Posted inNation & World
ICE report shows sharp drop in deportations, immigration arrests under Biden
U.S. officials say the numbers reflect the administration’s efforts to emphasize ‘quality over quantity’ by directing the agency to prioritize immigrants who pose public safety and national security threats.
Posted inFood
After growing up hungry in Portland, Cognac entrepreneurs help fight food insecurity in Maine
Golden Wat Cognac founding partner Kevin Ly relied on free food programs as a kid in Portland. Now, his company is donating 100 percent of its first-year profits from Maine sales to Full Plates, Full Potential.
Posted inNation & World
Trump’s border wall breached more than 3,000 times by smugglers, records show
The government spent $2.6 million to repair the breaches in the $11 billion taxpayer-funded wall during the 2019 to 2021 fiscal years, according to maintenance records.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Public deserves to know reason for low asylum approval rates
Rejections from the Boston regional immigration office far outpace the national average, and federal officials have been slow to explain why.
Posted inNation & World
U.S. has reunited 100 children taken from parents under Trump
President Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.
Posted inMaine, News
His deportation pulled a husband and wife apart for four long years, but no longer
Sandra Scribner Merlim and her husband, Otto Morales-Caballeros, have been reunited in Maine after he spent more than four years in Guatemala. The reunion was hard fought, and they don’t want to be apart now.
Posted inMaine, News
African refugee who grew up in Maine inspires youth book
It tells the story of a young refugee who adapts to a new life in Portland.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Can Biden find the right balance on immigration?
Demands by Democrats to fix the nation’s broken immigration system were wielded as a cudgel against Republicans during the 2020 campaign