AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage said President Barack Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants illegally in the United States from deportation is “shameful.” The Republican governor told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that it took him 11 years and $80,000 under current immigration procedures to get a green card for a Jamaican […]
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Maine Law students travel to southwest to assist women, children seeking asylum
PORTLAND — Two students from the University of Maine School of Law in Portland left Maine on Saturday to spend a week giving free legal assistance to women and children from Central America being held at a detention center in New Mexico. Laura Shaw, a third-year law student from Gorham, and Amber Attalla, a second-year […]
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Government officials deny plan to house immigrant children in Poland
LEWISTON — A number of agencies and offices named in a Sun Journal story published in Wednesday’s paper told the newspaper they are not working with a woman who has proposed bringing 120 immigrant children to the former Elan School in Poland. Also Wednesday, Gov. Paul LePage issued a statement opposing the possibility of unaccompanied […]
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Charles Krauthammer: Amnesty used as impeachment bait
WASHINGTON — President Obama is impatient. Congress won’t act on immigration, he says, and therefore he will. The White House is coy as to exactly what the president will do. But the leaks point to an executive order essentially legalizing an enormous new class of illegal immigrants, perhaps up to 5 million people. One doesn’t […]
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Sens. Collins, King say US should do more to counter promises Central American gangs make to young immigrants
BANGOR — Returning from a tour of immigration facilities on the Texas-Mexico border, both Maine’s U.S. senators criticized the Obama administration for failing to stem misinformation that has led tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children to the U.S. border. “I’ve called on the administration to make much clearer that these children, for the […]
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Maine senators part of congressional fact-finding visit at U.S.-Mexico border
Seven U.S. senators, including Susan Collins and Angus King, have visited the Texas-Mexico border on a fact-finding mission focusing on the immigration crisis. The group met Friday with Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske during a visit to a border patrol station, port of entry and centralized processing center. They also visited a military […]
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Immigration becomes an issue in Maine governor’s race
AUGUSTA — The debate over immigration is raging in the three-person race for governor in Maine, far from where an influx of central American youth is crossing the nation’s southern border. Republican Gov. Paul LePage sharply criticized the federal government this week for placing eight immigrant children in Maine without advising him and his campaign […]
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LePage wants answers on immigrant children placed in Maine
AUGUSTA — In a conference call Tuesday with federal agencies, Gov. Paul LePage was informed that eight illegal immigrant children have been placed in Maine by the federal government. “I only learned that children have been placed in Maine after I asked the question,” LePage said in a prepared statement. “No one from the federal […]
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Connie Schultz: Where has the compassion gone?
The Rev. German Calix, director of a Catholic relief agency in Honduras, described how gang members killed five children ages 5 to 13 in May: “They cut their bodies into quarters as a warning to others because the children didn’t want to distribute drugs in their neighborhood.” Here’s Samuel Carcamo, 17, describing why he was […]
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Charles Krauthammer: There’s a simple solution to current immigration problem
WASHINGTON — As is his wont, President Obama is treating the border crisis — more than 50,000 unaccompanied children crossing illegally — as a public relations problem. Where to photo op and where not. He still hasn’t enunciated a policy. He may not even have one. Will these immigrants be allowed to stay? Seven times […]