We’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.
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We’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.
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We’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.
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Our 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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The U.S. Supreme Court just concluded a term marked by major decisions on cases such as: birthright citizenship, immigrant rights, executive power, and transgender students.
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During the last week of June, the Supreme Court issued three major immigration decisions on Temporary Protected Status, Asylum, and Birthright Citizenship. Each ruling will impact Maine immigrants, including one that paves the way for the federal administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for 1.3 million people across the country.
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Sue Roche, executive director of the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, said that the approximately 1.3 million people in the U.S. enrolled in the temporary protected status program include “at least hundreds of people in Maine. Many people have lived with TPS protection for years and decades, raising families, working essential jobs in our workforce, and becoming indispensable parts of our communities.”
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Policy director at the Immigrant Legal, Lisa Parisio, said a TPS is used by at least 700 people in Maine, including several hundred with Haitian and Syrian designations. "This decision paves the way to impact all of these folks here in Maine and all of their families and their workplaces," Parisio said.
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