Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar may fail dogma litmus tests tests in the primaries.
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Our View: Congress must act to end child separation
The administration has shown it cannot be trusted to provide humane treatment.
Another View: LePage wisely averse to romanticizing immigration
In a column critical of recent remarks by the former governor, Greg Kesich fails to link Portland’s immigrant influx to a strain on services.
Pope Francis will meet with migrants in Morocco
He will also visit a training institute for imams that seeks to be a bulwark against Islamic extremism.
Faith leaders rally in Augusta to protest detention of immigrant children
They say the Trump administration policies that put immigrant children in detention facilities constitute a moral crisis.
Leonard Pitts: White America should consider the high cost of not knowing
Shielding white children from their history makes for dangerously oblivious adults.
Maine Voices: Building a wall won’t solve prime impetus for immigration
The driving force of migration is too many people vying for too few resources, which is usually accompanied by deadly violence.
The View From Here: You could do worse than boring
Paul LePage’s attacks on Maine’s immigrant community haven’t ended with his term in office.
Another View: Fighting Central American corruption will help prevent migration more than any border wall
Stopping the official misconduct that feeds poor living conditions is the way to keep migrants home.
Jim Fossel: Lesson learned, or is next shutdown 3 weeks away?
Disrupting the nation to win a policy debate is no way to run government.