Mainer’s tip got an immigrant wrongly detained for 65 days

Mainer’s tip got an immigrant wrongly detained for 65 days

Border agents in Calais arrested Jeanfranco Alejandro Flores Salazar, a Venezuelan asylum seeker, in March despite his having a lawful reason to reside and work in the U.S. He went on to spend 65 days in federal detention for what federal officials later acknowledged was an “error” and “oversight." Credit: Leela Stockley / BDN Composite; Denis Poroy / APThis story appears as part of a collaboration between The Maine Monitor and Maine Focus, the …