Within 100 miles of the border, CBP agents and Border Patrol officers have heightened authority.
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Posted inLocal & State, New England, News
Massachusetts teen detained by ICE at Cumberland County Jail released
Zeneyda Barrera Hernandez, an 18-year-old resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, had been held without bail since Monday.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
Officials warn that ice is not safe on many Maine bodies of water
Warm spells and rain have left the ice on many lakes and ponds nowhere near as solid as might be expected in late January.
Posted inNews, Uncategorized
ICE halts force-feeding of immigrant detainees in Texas
The U.S. government says it has suddenly stopped force-feeding a group of men on a hunger strike inside an El Paso immigration detention center.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Lewiston police, ICE detain woman
Zera Samson, center, is detained by several law enforcement officers at the bus station on the corner of Bates and Oak streets in Lewiston on Friday. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — A woman from Tanzania was detained at the Greyhound bus stop on Bates Street for about 45 minutes Friday while Lewiston police and an […]
Posted inLocal & State
Watch a deer use an ice chunk to raft 2 miles downriver
ALLAGASH (AP) — A video of deer surfing an ice flow down river before nimbly jumping to safety is causing a sensation.
Posted inNation / World
ICE spokesman resigns, citing fabrications by agency chief, Attorney General Sessions, about California immigrant arrests
The San Francisco spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resigned over what he described as “false” and “misleading” statements made by top-ranking officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ICE Acting Director Thomas D. Homan. The now-former spokesman, James Schwab, told news outlets late Monday that his resignation stemmed from statements by Homan […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Thin ice on Thompson Lake
A four-wheeler is partially submerged in Thompson Lake near Pismo Beach in Oxford on Wednesday afternoon. The Maine Warden Service did not return requests for information on the incident. (Chuck Blacquiere Photo) A four-wheeler is partially submerged in Thompson Lake near Pismo Beach in Oxford on Wednesday afternoon. The Maine Warden Service did not return requests […]
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Waterville mom devastated after ICE officers took her husband away
WATERVILLE — Mindy Saint Martin finds herself crying frequently, but she tries not to when her children, Donovan, 5, and Marcus, 2, are present. “I cry a lot every day — when I go to bed, I cry when I’m in the shower, I cry if I go to the bathroom, but I try not […]