Agents working on the Maine-Canada border are being sent to states in the Southwest to address the migrant influx there.
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Posted inNation & World
Biden administration allows media inside Texas border tent packed with minors
The reporters witnessed extreme levels of overcrowding.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: ICE should say what it’s up to in Maine
A lawsuit is seeking answers about why federal authorities have been moving immigration detainees through Maine.
Posted inNation & World
Trump’s unfinished border wall faces uncertain future after Biden pledge to freeze construction
Trump’s project has added just a few miles of new fencing where none previously existed. The effort largely has consisted of replacing small, older vehicle barriers with towering steel bars.
Posted inNews
Rangeley Border Patrol arrests violent sex offender, reunites missing woman with family
Responding to a tip by an off-duty warden, Border Patrol agents tracked two subjects and found that one was a missing person and the other a fugitive from Virginia.
Posted inNation & World
Study finds no increase in crime in ‘sanctuary’ cities, despite Trump claims
The data show that the policies were effective at limiting deportations of nonviolent offenders but did not result in higher crime rates in those cities.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World
Border Patrol arrests 7 along Maine-Canada border
The arrests stemmed from 3 incidents last weekend even as the border is closed to nonessential traffic during the pandemic.
Posted inNation & World
Democrats to investigate whistleblower claims that detainees were given forced hysterectomies
A nurse alleges that the Irwin County Detention Center performed questionable hysterectomies, refused to test detainees for COVID-19 and shredded medical records.
Posted inLocal & State, New England
Lawsuit challenges use of checkpoints miles from Canadian border
A federal lawsuit filed by ACLU affiliates in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont challenges the use of checkpoints by the U.S. Border Patrol nearly 100 miles from the Canadian border, saying they are beyond the patrol’s authority
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Post-9/11 policing is being used on us
From a federal crackdown in Oregon to a secretive police intelligence unit in Maine, we are seeing counterterrorism tactics turned on the public.