Executive Director Sue Roche testifies in support of Supplemental Budget Funding for Civil Legal Aid.
ILAP is proud and grateful to report to you that 19 of the people served in our emergency legal programming during ICE’s operation in January are now home, though the effects on them, their lives, and families, will remain.
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Policy Director Lisa Parisio testifies in support of LD 2176: An Act to Safeguard Personal Information and Strengthen Tenant Rights in Maine.
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Thank you for all the ways you have cared for and supported Maine’s immigrant communities, our team, and each other.
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Policy Director Lisa Parisio testifies in support of LD 2106: An Act to Prohibit the Disclosure of Nonpublic Records Without Proper Judicial Review
Maine – The Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project is seeing a drop in new requests for emergency legal help for people arrested by ICE in Maine. We have responded to over 60 requests for help made on behalf of people detained by ICE and are actively fighting to secure the freedom of many of these detained individuals. We hope that ICE’s enhanced operation in our state has ended, but we caution people that an end to the operation does not mean the end of all ICE or Border Patrol enforcement in our state now or going forward.
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ILAP is devastated at the news of the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Our hearts go out to Alex’s loved ones and the city of Minneapolis. We condemn the federal government’s brutal occupation of Minneapolis and send unwavering solidarity to the city’s immigrant communities and allies…
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ILAP joins partners and communities across Maine in heartbreak but firm resolve as we respond to the terror ICE has unleashed on our state.
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