“The ICE Out laws are a necessary and key part of Maine’s response to the federal administration,” Roche said. “They are needed to protect all of us, and to begin to repair some of the trust in Maine’s public institutions where the trust has been lost.”
Read MoreSue Roche, executive director of the Immigration Legal Advocacy Project, noted that ICE agents are federal agents, but the new laws can still govern how Mainers interact with them.
Read MoreSue Roche, with the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, said at a virtual press conference Tuesday the laws are a bulwark against federal policy. "While Maine cannot completely bar ICE from our state because that agency is under federal jurisdiction," Roche said, "we can and we must maximize the tools and protections that we have available to us at the state and local level."
Read MoreSue Roche, executive director for ILAP, said her organization was aware of more than 50 incidents in 2025 in which state and local police called immigration officials, resulting in arrests.
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