Who is really to blame when a migrant father dies alongside the child he was trying to save?
immigration
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-Eds, Opinion
Greg Kesich: Immigration stories belie nativist rhetoric
People moving around the globe are not being sent by shadowy figures who are up to mischief.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, News
Kennebec Valley YMCA provides community experience at Readfield camp for immigrants new to area
A program at Camp KV allows immigrant children to socialize and interact with other children in a way that officials hope will help them bridge differences.
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 inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Human rights abuses at the border must end
Congress cannot show more patience with an administration willing to inflict pain on people who have done us no wrong.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Asylum seekers welcomed to Maine with a ‘beautiful and wonderful’ July Fourth picnic
Despite a political divide over immigration nationally, large numbers of volunteers donate food, services or time to welcome 150-plus recently arrived asylum seekers sheltering in Portland.
Posted inLocal & State, News
New American citizens ready to celebrate the Fourth in Maine
The holiday means independence for the United States – and for these grateful people, too.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: ‘Comprehensive immigration reform’ won’t resolve migrant crisis
The best way to deal with the surge is to require asylum seekers to apply from home or a third country, not at the border.
Posted inNation & World
Sexist Facebook posts ‘inappropriate,’ U.S. Border Patrol chief says
A secret Facebook group for agents and employees included sexually explicit posts about U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and comments mocking migrant deaths.
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.