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The governor said President Donald Trump's office hasn't returned her calls regarding the operation launched this week, dubbed "Catch of the Day."
A crowd of 40 people were blowing whistles and banging on drums in front of Residence Inn and AC Hotel, according to police.
Residents have stepped in to bring their children to school, run errands, deliver meals, and are even patrolling neighborhoods in search of immigration agents.
Reports of ICE activity in Maine have intensified, while a Department of Homeland Security leader told Fox News that federal officers have identified over 1,000 targets across the state.
Por PATRICK WHITTLE, HOLLY RAMER y LEAH WILLINGHAMPORTLAND, Maine, EE.UU. (AP) — El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés)
Maine’s leading Republican and Democratic officials, now engaged in one of the nation's highest profile Senate races, offered starkly different comments on Friday as a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents racked up their arrest totals.
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A war of terror that is being waged on our city. Portland city leaders address ICE activity in Maine
The comments come as Operation Catch of the Day is underway in the state
The parents of a high school student in Portland, Maine, have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that police officers mistakenly detained their son at gunpoint during a SWAT operation near his school and continued to hold him after realizing he was not the suspect they were searching for.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday challenged federal immigration officials to provide arrest warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic information about who is being detained in a sweeping enforcement operation in Maine, saying the state has been left largely in the dark as fear spreads through immigrant communities.