WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering a plan to weed out would-be immigrants who are likely to require public assistance, as well as to deport – when possible – immigrants already living in the United States who depend on taxpayer help, according to a draft executive order obtained by The Washington Post. A second […]
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Trump and LePage administrations want to limit assistance to immigrants
WASHINGTON — While the issue of providing assistance to asylum-seekers is being debated in Maine, the Trump administration could be considering measures to limit how much immigrants can rely on assistance programs. According to documents obtained by The Associated Press, President Donald Trump is considering an executive order that would target some immigrants for deportation […]
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Donald Trump fires AG after she refuses to defend immigration order
WASHINGTON — In an extraordinary public showdown, President Donald Trump fired the acting attorney general of the United States after she publicly questioned the constitutionality of his refugee and immigration ban and refused to defend it in court. The clash Monday night between Trump and Sally Yates, a career prosecutor and Democratic appointee, laid bare […]
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Trump’s supporters around the nation applaud immigration order
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries is playing well in Trump Country, those places that propelled him to the White House. Trump promised to put America first during the campaign, his supporters say, and he’s doing it. That includes securing the nation’s borders and […]
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Lewiston seeing increased number of asylum-seekers
LEWISTON — The number of asylum-seekers receiving General Assistance from the city could nearly double this year compared to fiscal 2015-16, according to city records. Figures from the Social Services Department show General Assistance has been provided to 355 asylum-seekers in the first half of this fiscal year, from July 1, 2016, to Dec. 31, […]
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Sen. Susan Collins defends demonstrators, criticizes Trump immigration policy
The demonstrations roiling the country in the wake of Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the White House show “the beauty of America” in the way its people speak up, Maine’s senior senator said Monday. There’s nothing like it in places such as North Korea, Russia and Iran, said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican. But Collins […]
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Ban causes pain, despair in Lewiston’s Somali community
LEWISTON — Samira Aden, 12, a Lewiston Middle School seventh-grader, was looking forward to seeing her grandmother this spring. “I haven’t met her yet,” Samira said. For the past 24 years her grandmother, Isha Varsame, a native of Somalia, has lived in a refugee camp in Kenya. Aden has talked on the phone with her. […]
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Donald Trump signs regulation restriction, defends immigration ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Coverage of President Donald Trump on Monday (all times local): Some Republicans not totally supportive Updated 11:10 a.m.: Growing numbers of Republican lawmakers are expressing concerns about President Donald Trump’s executive order cracking down on immigration. GOP Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina say in a joint […]
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Bates College president ‘appalled’ by Trump’s immigration order
LEWISTON — Some members of the Bates College community may be feeling the impact of President Donald Trump’s executive order that limits immigration by refugees and people from seven majority Muslim countries. “I am appalled by the executive order and the inhumane manner in which it is being implemented,” college President Clayton Spencer wrote in […]
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Sen. Libby blasts Trump’s new immigration orders
AUGUSTA — Lewiston’s state senator called President Donald Trump’s immigration order “the most egregious moral failure by the American government in the modern era.” Nate Libby, the assistant Democratic leader, said the immigration restriction “runs afoul of the promise of America inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, that our shores will always be welcome to […]