LEWISTON — After another round of emotional talks, the City Council decided Tuesday to officially support a legislative bill that would fund an immigrant resource coordinator position in the city. The vote in favor of the resolve, 6-1, did not include a vote from Mayor Shane Bouchard, who does not support the bill. Councilor Michael Marcotte […]
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Two local women to receive Empower the Immigrant Woman Trailblazer Awards
PORTLAND — Two local 2017 Empower the Immigrant Woman Conference Trailblazer Award recipients will be honored at the second annual Empower the Immigrant Woman Conference scheduled for Saturday, March 18, at an evening gala at Congregation Bet Ha’am. Fowsia Musse was born in Mogadishu, Somali. She and her family fled to Ethiopia as clan conflicts and […]
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Paul LePage argues Maine Legislature adjourned but experts disagree
AUGUSTA — Pundits and experts Wednesday were scratching their heads over why Republican Gov. Paul LePage didn’t sign or veto a set of 19 bills when the Legislature took a break at the end of June. A number of lawmakers and others say the bills became law without LePage’s signature because he failed to act […]
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Auburn leans on financial trust for asylum-seeking families in need of General Assistance
AUBURN — The city will continue paying General Assistance benefits to a small group of asylum-seeking immigrant families, even though there are questions about whether or not that money will be repaid by the state. “We have a moral obligation, and then we have a financial obligation, and sometimes those don’t match,” Councilor Tizz Crowley […]
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Portland, Westbrook join lawsuit over immigrant aid
PORTLAND (AP) — Portland and Westbrook will join a municipal group to challenge Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s administration’s policy banning some immigrants from receiving welfare. The cities say they will take part in lawsuit the Maine Municipal Association plans to file over the directive that immigrants who can’t prove that they’re in the country legally […]
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Springfield, Mass., mayor: Stop sending my city refugees
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line. Mayor Domenic Sarno is the latest mayor to decry […]
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Cousin arrested on 5 counts of murder in deaths of mom, 4 kids stabbed in NYC home
NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant who neighbors said struggled to survive in America was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of his cousin’s wife and her four children in their Brooklyn home — using a butcher knife. The suspect, 25-year-old Mingdong Chen, implicated himself in the killings late […]