immigration
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PublishedMarch 6, 2022
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.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2022
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.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2021
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.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
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.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2021
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.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2021
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.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2021
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
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PublishedNovember 27, 2021
Some states dropping ‘dehumanizing’ terms for immigrants
California and Colorado this year banned state agencies from using the word 'alien' to refer to immigrants who entered the U.S. without permission.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2021
New Biden rules would limit arrest, deportation of migrants
Authorities will be directed to focus on noncitizens who crossed the border after Nov. 1, 2020, or are determined to be a threat because of national security or 'serious criminal activity.'
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2021
Maine Voices: Fight to give millions of immigrants roadmap to citizenship is far from over
No matter what the Senate parliamentarian says, the struggle for basic rights and protections will continue.
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