SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration has proposed rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance. Federal law already requires those seeking green cards to prove they will not be a burden — or “public charge” — but the new […]
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Crisis of education: The immigrant dream versus immigrant nightmare
In a world with so much economic, social and political inequalities, education is not only a great equalizer, but an economic ladder, social capital and political empowerment. Today’s American immigrant is banking on the fruits of education. Ask any immigrant from any background, and they will tell you that their ultimate hope is education, for […]
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James Bruce Sargent
LEWISTON — James Bruce Sargent of Auburn, the son of Walter Field Sargent and Lona Ray Sargent died Saturday, June 30. He had been a resident of D’Youville Pavillion for several months prior to his death. He was born Dec. 13, 1942, in Lewiston, Maine. Sargent was a 1961 graduate of Edward Little High School, Auburn, […]
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Bigotry against immigrants is nothing new in Lewiston
“If anyone walks down Lisbon Street in Lewiston, he will certainly think that he is in … an alien land,” where foreigners speaking a strange language are everywhere, an observer claimed. There are “few real Americans” left in the city, another man griped. He also noted that “a few real Americans” in Lewiston “are working […]
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Job-seeking immigrants describe cold reception from Maine employers
Angela Okafor studied law in Nigeria, and after emigrating to Maine she studied and passed the state’s bar exam on her first try. But Okafor, who speaks perfect English, said she couldn’t get a single Maine law firm to hire her. She ended up getting a job washing dishes. “I worked in a dish room, […]
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At I-95 checkpoint, Border Patrol agents question drivers, passengers about citizenship
U.S. Border Patrol agents conducted an 11-hour vehicle checkpoint on Interstate 95 in eastern Maine on Wednesday, stopping southbound vehicles near Lincoln in Penobscot County to ask drivers and passengers for their citizenship and immigration status, and to search vehicles with sniffer dogs. Agents from the Houlton Border Patrol sector manned the checkpoint, arresting a […]
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Current immigration policy violates human rights
Once again, so much for “Give me your tired, your poor … yearning to breathe free.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made clear that this offer does not apply to hundreds of thousands of Central Americans fleeing violence in their home countries. Removing Lady Justice’s blindfold, Sessions directed her to cast a jaundiced eye at […]
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LePage says immigrants could ‘go home,’ jabs Medicaid expansion
PORTLAND — Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday weighed in on the controversy over the Trump administration separating children from their parents at the border, saying the families could “go back home.” “The parents have a right to take their children and go back home,” LePage said to assembled news media after an appearance at the […]
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Bus company apologizes after employee tells passengers they have to be U.S. citizens to ride
Concord Coach Lines, a popular bus service that serves much of northern New England, has apologized after video surfaced of an employee falsely telling passengers in Bangor that they needed to be U.S. citizens to ride. The unidentified employee was captured in video taken by passenger Alec Larson on May 28, according to News Center […]
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Immigration issue poisons democratic politics
By William Galston Special to The Washington Post Center-left political analysts want to believe that economic stagnation and income inequality form the heart of the contemporary populist surge, but the evidence does not bear this out. In Britain, the pro-Brexit campaigners’ shift of focus from economics to immigration and sovereignty proved decisive. Immigration did more […]