His department has ignored visas for trafficking victims, depriving them of protection and increasing their risk of deportation.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Dana Connors: Green-card reforms would bring more willing, able workers to Maine
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act would benefit our state’s economy and its job creators.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Fighting for survival should not be a crime
Who is really to blame when a migrant father dies alongside the child he was trying to save?
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Response to discrimination must occur before genocide is on the horizon
Whatever the defining term, we need to focus on the degradation being funded by our tax dollars at the border.
Posted inNation & World, News
Border activist who aided migrants to be retried
Scott Warren will be retried after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on charges he gave water and food to migrants on the border.
Posted inNation & World, News
Girl recalls poor care in Texas border station
A 12-year-old girl locked in a Texas border station with her little sister says they were treated badly, slept on the floor, didn’t have enough food and weren’t allowed to bathe.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Asylum seekers defy death for a better life in Portland
Fleeing violence in their home countries, they endure a hellish journey from central Africa to reach a hoped-for haven in Maine.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Insight: ‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits
Having a historical reference point can help us grasp the urgency of the crisis on the border.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: So this is the kind of nation we are
Congress shamelessly breaks for recess, having done nothing to protect the children who we’re warehousing at the border.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
McConnell rejects Democrats’ demands to change $4.6 billion border bill
Democratic demands include more protections for the children, such as setting medical and hygiene standards at facilities, and a requirement that any death of a minor be reported within 24 hours.