After a multi-year hiatus, ILAP’s signature event, CeleSoirée, returned this May at Ocean Gateway in Portland. A celebration of Maine’s immigrant communities and the collective of organizations working alongside them, CeleSoirée provided a chance to reflect on the past year’s accomplishments in the face of the administration’s attacks, while looking ahead to what’s next.
Read MorePortland, ME and Juneau, AK: Groups in Alaska and Maine delivered a letter yesterday to their Senators, Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), urging them to follow up their previous support for women and girls at risk of sexual assault in Haiti by co-sponsoring S. 4814.
Read MoreThree new ICE Out of Maine laws took effect today, drawing a clear line between rogue federal agents and the essential places where Mainers live, learn, and heal. These laws will protect Maine communities and ensure that local officials and resources are never used to support dangerous and chaotic federal immigration operations…
Read MoreWe’d like to start off this month by thanking Representative Chellie Pingree for her exceptional, ongoing leadership conducting Congressional oversight of the Trump administration’s violent, mass deportation agenda.
Read MoreJohan Sebastián’s death is a devastating tragedy, felt by his family, the Biddeford community, and all of Maine. It is also not an isolated incident, and it was not an accident. It is the direct and foreseeable result of deliberate federal policy choices, rooted in racism and dehumanization.
Read MoreOn August 17, House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson and other Members of the U.S. House of Representatives traveled to Biddeford to join Representative Pingree in an oversight hearing of ICE’s use of force and the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. ILAP’s Executive Director Sue Roche was called as a witness in the oversight hearing
Read MoreOur hearts are with the family, friends, and loved ones of Johan Sebastián, whose life was taken by ICE as he was on his way to work Monday morning, July 13th.
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