ICE Operation Continues in Maine; State’s Largest Business Groups Urge Congressional Action to Rein in Agency

Maine’s Immigrant Students Stay Home as ICE Operation Ramps Up

PORTLAND, Maine — Shandy Priddy, a delivery driver for Target in Portland, Maine, was dropping off a package at an apartment complex Friday morning when a stranger approached with a startling question: Would Priddy drive her son to school? On the fourth day of an unprecedented federal immigration crackdown in the state, Priddy, 48, a mother of three, said she understood instantly. “She looked petrified, like she did not want to step out of that …

Where reports of ICE activity are coming in across Maine

The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition’s ICE hotline logged nearly 650 sightings in the seven days since the massive operation began.

Maine Citizens Monitoring ICE Say Feds Are Intimidating Them

Source: Ryan Murphy / Getty Last week, we reported that the Trump administration had begun its immigration crackdown in Maine, calling its operation in the state “Operation Catch of the Day” — because someone at the Department of Homeland Security apparently thinks it’s amusing to give government actions that upend people’s lives cute and folksy titles that might obfuscate the fact that ICE and Border Patrol operations across the country have be…

ICE operation continues in Maine; state’s largest business groups urge congressional action to rein in agency

Federal officials have claimed 200 arrests since last week and the impacts have rippled out to businesses and schools. How long Maine will see increased ICE presence remains unknown.

BLK ALERTS - Maine Citizens Monitoring ICE Activity Say Feds Are Coming To Their Homes To Intimidate Them

Source: Ryan Murphy / Getty Last week, we reported that the Trump administration had begun its immigration crackdown in Maine, calling its operation in the state “Operation Catch of the Day” — because someone at the Department of Homeland Security apparently thinks it’s amusing to give government actions that upend people’s lives cute and folksy titles that might obfuscate the fact that ICE and Border Patrol operations across the country have be…

Maine Citizens Monitoring ICE Activity Say Feds Are Coming To Their Homes To Intimidate Them

Source: Ryan Murphy / Getty Last week, we reported that the Trump administration had begun its immigration crackdown in Maine, calling its operation in the state “Operation Catch of the Day” — because someone at the Department of Homeland Security apparently thinks it’s amusing to give government actions that upend people’s lives cute and folksy titles that might obfuscate the fact that ICE and Border Patrol operations across the country have be…