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ILAP Applauds Governor Mills On Decision To Let Bill To Protect Maine Residents and Resources from the Federal Administration’s Mass Deportation Agenda Become Law
ILAP Applauds Governor Mills On Decision To Let Bill To Protect Maine Residents and Resources from the Federal Administration’s Mass Deportation Agenda Become Law

Maine - ILAP applauds Governor Janet Mills’ decision to allow LD 1971 to become law, protecting Maine residents, families, and public resources from being used to advance the federal government’s mass deportation agenda.

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ILAP Applauds Rockland Residents and City Council for Passing Ordinance to Ensure City Resources Are Not Used for Federal Administration's Mass Deportation Agenda
ILAP Applauds Rockland Residents and City Council for Passing Ordinance to Ensure City Resources Are Not Used for Federal Administration's Mass Deportation Agenda

Rockland, ME – The City of Rockland passed an ordinance and order on December 8 ensuring that the Rockland Police Department and other city resources are not used to assist the federal administration with its mass deportation agenda. ILAP applauds and congratulates the Rockland residents and City Council members who worked for months to put this protection in place for their community.

Lisa Parisio, ILAP’s Policy Director, issued the following statement…

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ILAP Applauds Representative Pingree for Conducting Crucial Oversight of ICE Facility in Scarborough
ILAP Applauds Representative Pingree for Conducting Crucial Oversight of ICE Facility in Scarborough

Scarborough, ME – On December 8, U.S. Representative Pingree exercised her Congressional rights and responsibilities to conduct oversight at the ICE facility in Scarborough, in response to reports of Maine residents being denied access to counsel there, and other concerning issues. A copy of Representative Pingree’s letter requesting this oversight visit can be found here.

ILAP Co-Legal Director Melissa Brennan joined Representative Pingree at a press conference following the oversight visit, and shared these remarks…

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ILAP Public Comment: End of Work Permit Automatic Extensions
ILAP Public Comment: End of Work Permit Automatic Extensions

The 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.

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Representative Pingree and Senator King Lead Members of Congress in Calling on Trump Administration Not to Punish Workers and Businesses for Government Processing Delays
Representative Pingree and Senator King Lead Members of Congress in Calling on Trump Administration Not to Punish Workers and Businesses for Government Processing Delays

Maine – 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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View fullsize Breaking news! ILAP applauds Governor Mills for her decision and announcement that she will allow LD 1971 to become law. LD 1971 will provide Maine’s immigrant communities and the entire state with critically-needed protection against the Trump
View fullsize Earlier this week, the City of Rockland celebrated a huge win for their community, passing an ordinance to ensure that their local police resources aren't diverted to assist the federal government's mass immigration enforcement agenda. This ordinanc
View fullsize Maine Morning Star published an article yesterday covering @chelliepingree's oversight visit to an ICE facility in Scarborough. At the following press conference, ILAP Co-Legal Director Melissa Brennan, who accompanied Rep. Pingree, elaborated on th
View fullsize "Either Constitutional rights apply to all of us or they apply to none of us." - ILAP Co-Legal Director Melissa Brennan 📣 Yesterday, Representative Pingree conducted crucial oversight of the ICE facility in Scarborough, following repor
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