immigration
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PublishedDecember 12, 2019
Influx of asylum seekers fills Portland’s overflow shelters
Nearly 170 people, most from sub-Saharan Africa, have arrived in Portland in the past three weeks and city officials say they've run out of space to shelter them.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2019
Trump administration plans huge fee hikes for immigration records vital to genealogists
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials declined to explain exactly how they arrived at the new fee amounts, which, in some cases, would rise by nearly 500 percent.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2019
Federal judge in Boston rules that immigrants can’t be detained by default
The Boston immigration court serves all of New England.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2019
Maine Voices: Stop use of immigration ‘iceboxes’
A Mainer reports on her conversations with asylum seekers stuck on the Mexican side of the southwest border.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
Portland’s facilities accommodate newly arrived asylum seekers
City officials say they were able to handle the 28 people without having to open any overflow gymnasiums.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
Our View: Helping asylum seekers, and others, helps Maine
There's no reason the state has to choose between giving migrants short-term aid and doing the same for other residents.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2019
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.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2019
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.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2019
Why America? Citizenship candidates tell Readfield-area students what led them to immigrate
Thirty-one people from 25 countries become citizens during a naturalization ceremony Friday at Maranacook Community Middle School.
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PublishedNovember 13, 2019
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.
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