City officials say they were able to handle the 28 people without having to open any overflow gymnasiums.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Helping asylum seekers, and others, helps Maine
There’s no reason the state has decide between giving migrants short-term aid and doing the same for other residents.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
About 70 more asylum seekers expected to arrive in Portland this week
The African families released at the border in Texas will be offered overnight shelter in local gymnasiums, and city officials are making contingency plans in case the influx is larger than expected.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Proposed asylum rules are deliberately cruel
Denying people the ability to earn a living is the wrong way to treat those escaping persecution.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
Why America? Citizenship candidates tell Readfield-area students what led them to immigrate
Thirty-one people from 25 countries became citizens during a naturalization ceremony Friday at Maranacook Community Middle School.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, News
Trump administration rule would double asylum seekers’ wait for work permits
The proposal would make asylum applicants wait 1 year before they could apply for work permits, a move that critics say could affect hundreds of new arrivals in Maine and add to the burden on taxpayers.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News, Politics
Advocates highlight high stakes for some Maine immigrants in Supreme Court case
Elected officials and business, religious and educational leaders are warning that nearly 150 Mainers could be deported if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Immigrant wins on Election Day are good news for Maine communities
Several first- and second-generation Americans were elected to office Tuesday, helping local governments look more like their communities.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Charge dropped in Bangor case that led to claim of racial profiling
An advocacy group complains that the Border Patrol’s suspicions about a family were aroused because they appeared to be of ‘Central-American origin’ and spoke Spanish while shopping at a store in Maine
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Trump’s demonization of immigrants is nothing new. But it’s time to say ‘no more’
Speak out against his rhetoric, and against elevating an immigration hard-liner to homeland security secretary.