Colleagues and community groups are pushing back on recent immigrant detentions in Portland as arrests nationwide hit a Trump-era high. Federal agents detained a Cambodian man on Tuesday while he was working at Veranda Asian Market. Earlier this month, agents detained a Portland Public Schools transportation employee. These detentions are in addition to others outside […]
The location of a planned U.S. Department of Homeland Security national immigration enforcement call center has changed from Adams to Nashville, a federal contract database shows. Last week, the database showed ICE had awarded a $63 million contract to Alaska-based company Koniag Government Services, and listed Adams, a rural town of about 600 people near […]
The city of Columbus has joined a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy conditioning anti-terrorism funding on changes to local election administration. The Trump administration wants to impose new proof of citizenship requirements, broader post-election audits, and a shift to hand-marked paper ballots. Those changes align with provisions in the Save America Act and the […]
Metro Nashville filed suit Monday against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in federal court, claiming the Trump administration withheld tens of millions of dollars for anti-terrorism efforts unless states and local governments adopted certain election-system policies to check citizenship. Metro joined Harris County and El Paso County, both in Texas, and the city of […]
Local leaders told Democratic members of Congress that the fatal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting in Biddeford last month has left a lasting impact, with federal silence and inaction leaving the community to carry the burden. The members of the minority party convened the hearing to collect information with the hope of spurring accountability, […]
Military contractor aircraft equipped with high-end surveillance gear has been flying along the United States southern border above Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for months. The Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security won’t elaborate on what the aircraft are doing. “The Department of War contracts with a number of companies, including Metrea, […]
People in Cumberland County have been detained outside court and at the airport in recent weeks, following a national trend of federal immigration authorities employing new tactics to boost arrest numbers. Federal immigration agents arrested more people in July than in any previous month of President Donald Trump’s administration. On Tuesday, the Maine Immigrants’ Rights […]
Biddeford resident Monica Davis was helping a friend move on a Monday morning in July when she saw a girl racing down the road saying, “They’ve just killed someone, ICE just killed someone in the street.” That was how Davis, who lives a few blocks from Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero’s family, found out that he […]
Revenue grew more than 27% for private prison operator CoreCivic as the Tennessee company profited from contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that support the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation agenda, according to a shareholders’ report released last week. Revenue from ICE, alone, increased more than 50% compared to the same three-month period last […]
One day after nurses and union members rallied in support of detained Maine Medical Center nurse Debora Kapisha, the union announced Thursday that she was released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is back home. Union members, local leaders call on MaineHealth to help secure release of detained nurse “We’re incredibly proud that nurses […]
