U.S. Border Patrol agents being reassigned from Maine to Mexican border

Border Patrol

Published
April 3, 2021

U.S. Border Patrol agents being reassigned from Maine to Mexican border

Agents working on the Maine-Canada border are being sent to states in the Southwest to address the migrant influx there.
Published
December 2, 2020

Trump’s unfinished border wall faces uncertain future after Biden pledge to freeze construction

Trump's project has added just a few miles of new fencing where none previously existed. The effort largely has consisted of replacing small, older vehicle barriers with towering steel bars.
Published
November 21, 2020

Rangeley Border Patrol arrests violent sex offender, reunites missing woman with family

Responding to a tip by an off-duty warden, Border Patrol agents tracked two subjects and found that one was a missing person and the other a fugitive from Virginia.
Published
October 21, 2020

Study finds no increase in crime in ‘sanctuary’ cities, despite Trump claims

The data show that the policies were effective at limiting deportations of nonviolent offenders but did not result in higher crime rates in those cities.
Published
September 16, 2020

Democrats to investigate whistleblower claims that detainees were given forced hysterectomies

A nurse alleges that the Irwin County Detention Center performed questionable hysterectomies, refused to test detainees for COVID-19 and shredded medical records.
Published
June 12, 2020

Border officials spent humanitarian funds on dirt bikes, dogs and enforcement, report finds

The report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office did not indicate how much money was misused, but it said the expenditures were a violation of the law.
Published
February 28, 2020

Concord Coach Lines will stop allowing warrant-less immigration checks

The bus line announced the change in policy Friday, citing an internal Border Patrol memo showing that agents may not board private buses without company consent.
Published
February 14, 2020

Customs agency memo contradicts Greyhound on bus raids

The document confirms that companies do not have to allow Border Patrol agents on buses to conduct routine checks for illegal immigrants, an issue in Maine and elsewhere.
Published
October 22, 2019

Charge dropped in Bangor case that led to claim of racial profiling

An advocacy group complains that the Border Patrol's suspicions about a family were aroused because they appeared to be of 'Central-American origin' and spoke Spanish while shopping at a store in Maine
Published
July 30, 2019

Eight from Mexico arrested in human smuggling effort in Aroostook County

Police pulled over a vehicle containing 7 undocumented immigrants who illegally crossed the border into Maine last week, and an eighth man who was paid to drive them to New York, authorities say.