Portland’s latest wave of immigrants are getting the feel of the city as the search continues for more permanent homes for them.
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Raids targeting undocumented immigrants set to begin within days
The nationwide sweep, which was postponed last month by President Trump and remains in flux, aims at people with final deportation orders.
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Kennebec Valley YMCA provides community experience at Readfield camp for immigrants new to area
A program at Camp KV allows immigrant children to socialize and interact with other children in a way that officials hope will help them bridge differences.
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Asylum seekers welcomed to Maine with a ‘beautiful and wonderful’ July Fourth picnic
Despite a political divide over immigration nationally, large numbers of volunteers donate food, services or time to welcome 150-plus recently arrived asylum seekers sheltering in Portland.
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New American citizens ready to celebrate the Fourth in Maine
The holiday means independence for the United States – and for these grateful people, too.
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The Road to Portland
Families from central Africa face oceans, jungles, mountains, rivers, bandits, sickness, starvation and wild animals to escape political violence in their home countries and travel the long road through Latin America to Portland, Maine.
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House passes border aid bill backed by Senate and Trump administration
The emergency legislation is expected to ease a cash crunch at federal agencies that care for migrants who have flocked over the border in huge numbers seeking asylum.
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Company whose driver collided with bikers has history of violations
Massachusetts-based Westfield Transport has had over 60 violations in the 24 months before one of its employees was charged with negligent homicide in a crash that killed 7 motorcyclists in New Hampshire.
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Wayfair workers in Maine to join walkout over sales to migrant detention centers
The planned walkout on Wednesday is in response to the company selling over $200,000 worth of bedroom furniture to an agency that manages detention centers along the U.S. border.
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Head of Border Protection steps down as outrage grows over migrant children
The government has moved more than 100 children back to a remote Border Patrol station in Texas where children were caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.