In 2026, ILAP will prioritize defending immigrant communities from mass enforcement, responding to systemic issues in immigration detention, defending humanitarian immigration pathways, advocating for the rights and protection of immigrant children, expanding access to immigration legal services, and supporting efforts to help people meet basic needs.
Read MoreILAP 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.
Read MoreIn 2026, ILAP will prioritize defending immigrant communities from mass enforcement, responding to systemic issues in immigration detention, defending humanitarian immigration pathways, advocating for the rights and protection of immigrant children, expanding access to immigration legal services, and supporting efforts to help people meet basic needs.
Read MoreThank you for all the ways you have cared for and supported Maine’s immigrant communities, our team, and each other.
Read MoreILAP remains devastated at the news of the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Our hearts are with 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.
Read MoreMaine – 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.
Read MoreILAP 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…
Read MoreILAP 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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