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Posted inNation & World
Trump stands firm, blames Democrats on family separation policy as criticism mounts
An increasing number of Republicans are among the voices calling for an end to forcibly separating migrant children from their parents at the border.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: It’s right to protest family separations
Our tradition of civil disobedience tells us how to respond to unjust government action.
Posted inFood
Boys Club members don their best clothes, manners for a night at Portland’s Chaval
Eleven youths with the local Boys Club get another stamp on their Passport to Manhood.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
U.S. plans tent cities to house migrant children
Unaccompanied children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border are squeezed out of the usual shelters, which now are filling up with children taken from their parents.
Posted inLocal & State, News
A year after husband was deported in immigration crackdown, dark days for Naples woman
Sandra Scribner Merlim has hope that Otto Morales-Caballeros will be allowed to return from Guatemala, but the process is long, difficult and a test of patience.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
Somali man who settled in Maine accused of using another man’s name to apply for papers
Hussien Noor Hussien, who came to Maine in 2004, was arrested last week in Vermont and faces three charges related to falsifying applications.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: All of Maine is well represented by Sens. Collins, King
Our senators support Maine and its people and have access to facts of the immigration debate.
Posted inLocal & State, News
A new mother gets an early Mother’s Day gift: U.S. citizenship
Takry Khamwandee came to the U.S. to learn English in preparation to become an English teacher in her native Thailand, but remained here when she fell in love.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Lawmakers shouldn’t protect illegal immigrants and ignore U.S. workers
Both Sens. Collins and King backed bills expanding a tech visa plan while mass layoffs were happening.