Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services will begin resettling between 50-100 Afghan refugees next week. The agency has been collecting donated items.
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Being multilingual helped Samu Tona — and Lewiston
I met Samu Tona on the first day of the rest of his life. It was September 2017. Just days before, they’d fled their native Angola, where crime rates were on the rise, politically motivated killings had become commonplace. “There is so much insecurity there,” he said. “It’s dangerous, basic human needs are not being met, unemployment […]
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Manuel Vemba makes great strides in the community and on our soccer fields
“I am here for the American dream,” he declared when arriving in the U.S. And he’s helping other immigrants work for that dream.
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Afghan evacuees to begin arriving in Maine as soon as this week
Catholic Charities Maine is heading up the resettlement of 67 to 100 Afghans who fled their homeland as the U.S. military withdrew from the 20-year war.
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The debate over who should police migration is an old one
Even before the United States regulated migration, states did. Here’s why.
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Why are there thousands of Haitian migrants at the Texas border?
Thousands of migrants from Haiti are camped out under a bridge in South Texas trying to enter the United States, leading to a fresh humanitarian and political crisis for President Joe Biden.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ treatment of Haitian migrants at U.S.-Mexico border
The veteran diplomat criticized the U.S. decision to repatriate thousands of Haitians from the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few days.
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U.S. officials defend expulsion of Haitians from Texas town
The homeland security chief defends his recent decision to grant Haitians temporary legal status due to political and civil strife in their homeland if they were in the United States on July 29, but not to the thousands flooding in and being sent back now.
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Maine could see up to 100 Afghan refugees by spring
Afghanistan citizens are being relocated to Maine after being evacuated from their home country following the Taliban takeover last month.
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Supreme Court orders ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy reinstated
The high court refused to block a lower court ruling ordering the administration to reinstate the Trump-era program that forces people to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S.