Janet Mills to ICE: ‘Show the warrants’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly has a quota of 1,400 arrests during its operation here.
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Bruce Lee play and Vocal Arts DC join growing list of Kennedy Center cancellations
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Issa Rae, Bela Fleck are among the numerous artists who have withdrawn in protest of President Donald Trump’s ousting of the leadership at the center.
Jared Golden: ICE activity in Maine ‘serves the public interest’ if criminals are targeted
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden says he’s supporting ICE operations in Maine, which have included his hometown of Lewiston.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says
The shift comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration arrests nationwide, deploying thousands of officers under a mass deportation campaign.
ICE activity increases in Maine as anxiety grows in immigrant communities
Reports of immigration arrests over the last week have struck fear in immigrant communities of Portland and Lewiston and prompted backlash from Gov. Janet Mills.
The 10 most rural towns in Maine
Discover the most rural towns in Maine, ranked by the BDN’s Rural Maine Index, and see why these remote locations top the list.
We needed a better definition for rural Maine. Hannaford helped us find it.
Hannaford is at the heart of the BDN’s Rural Maine Index, which mixes where you are in the state with how people generally live there.
There’s ‘nothing’ in this isolated corner of Maine, and that’s why people like it
Moose River, which is north of Jackman and lies closer to Quebec City than Portland, may be Maine’s most isolated frontier town.
What the beginning of Maine’s immigration enforcement surge looked like
Reports began early Tuesday, centered on the Portland area and later in Lewiston, Maine cities with the most notable immigrant populations.
Penobscot Nation urges its members to carry their tribal IDs during expected ICE surge
That comes as reports trickle in across the country of ICE agents detaining — and in some cases, nearly deported — members of Indigenous tribes.
Republican super PAC is spending $42M to defend Susan Collins
It’s the Senate Leadership Fund’s largest investment in Maine.
Blaine House evacuated because of gas leak
Construction crews at the Blaine House hit a gas line, and the mansion was evacuated as a precaution.
Trump’s ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it
The GOP’s big bill is “supercharging ICE,” one budget expert said, in ways that Americans may not fully realize — and that have only just begun.
Downtown Lewiston ‘eerily quiet’ as immigrant community braces for ICE action
The largest immigration enforcement and removal operation in Maine during President Donald Trump’s second term is expected to be centered on Lewiston and Portland.
Surrounded by billionaires in Davos, Trump plans to lay out how he’ll make housing more affordable
Trump is flying to the World Economic Forum in Davos — an annual gathering of the global elite — where he may see many of the billionaires he has surrounded himself with during his first year back in the White House.
US attorney warns Maine protesters not to interfere with ICE
The statement comes ahead of a rumored deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents to Portland and Lewiston this week.
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