Earlier this year, ILAP launched our Maine, Home for All Campaign to show a clear message of welcome, belonging, and home to Maine’s immigrant communities. It’s been so inspiring to see that there is a community standing beside us ready to stand up and proclaim that Maine is home for ALL.
Read MoreThe work ILAP does is only possible with the support of our community who shares the belief that Maine is home for ALL. These are just a few examples of ways we’ve seen people getting creative to support ILAP.
Read MoreOver the last four months, we’ve had the joy of welcoming six new staff members to the ILAP team. Please join us in celebrating and welcoming each of them to the ILAP community!
Read MoreThe Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, (ILAP), respectfully submits the following comments regarding the USCIS Interim Final Rule (IFR), Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents, DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0271. ILAP recommends this IFR – which has no legitimate underlying public policy rationale – be immediately withdrawn in its entirety and the previous final rule granting 540-day automatic extensions of certain work permits be restored.
Read MoreLisa Parisio, with the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, said many of those arrested posed no threat. "Many of the impacted Maine residents who have been in this situation were in lawful immigration processes, they had valid work permits and they had absolutely no criminal record.”
Read More“This informal assistance is the vast majority of the immigration assistance that we are seeing here in the state,” said Lisa Parisio. There is no centralized tracking method for seeing the full extent of these incidents, according to Parisio.
Read MoreWhy Dozens of Local Police Agencies in New England are Patrolling the Northern Border.
Read MoreMaine – On October 30, the federal administration announced the end of a policy that had automatically extended certain work permits. These automatic extensions were necessary to ensure that workers and businesses were not punished when processing delays at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services resulted in workers not getting their new work permit in time before their previous work permit expired.
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