Legal Director Phil Mantis was featured alongside advocates from De-ICE Maine and a Maine family on Freedom & Captivity's podcast episode about Immigration Detention and Deportation. Listen here…
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A Managing Partner at Preti Flaherty writes in Mainebiz about the law firm’s commitment to equity, highlighting their partnership with ILAP in support of our Immigrant Children’s Project. Thank you, Preti Flaherty! Read more…
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Executive Director Sue Roche reflects on her 20 years at ILAP and looks ahead to 2021 encouraged by the new administration’s early steps to change immigration policy. Read more…
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Executive Director Sue Roche joins other community leaders in sharing aspirations for the coming year in this Maine Biz article. Read more…
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ILAP Asylum Outreach Attorney Felix Hagenimana and Board member Tom Douglas talk about their experiences as lawyers of color in one of the whitest states in the country as the state’s legal field begins to confront racism. Read more…
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ILAP signs onto this op-ed in the Portland Press Herald that overviews the state’s anti-Black racism and highlights a number of anti-racist policies and practices that should be adopted to correct these inequities. Read more…
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State Representative Rachel Talbot Ross writes a letter, featured here in Amjambo Africa, to request that a member of Maine’s indigenous African American community be appointed to the Economic Recovery Committee. ILAP signed onto this letter. Read more…
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The Bangor Daily News revisits a 2019 legislative bill that called for a mechanism to track the prevalence of racial profiling by police in Maine. ILAP’s Advocacy and Outreach Attorney and founding Executive Director testified in favor of this bill, however it passed without data collection requirements. Read more…
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The Mount Desert Islander highlights the MDI Racial Equity Working Group’s three-part speaking series, featuring ILAP’s Asylum Outreach Attorney, Felix Hagenimana, in the first talk entitled “Immigration Law in These Challenging Times.” Read more…
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