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PublishedOctober 19, 2020
Supreme Court to review two cases involving Trump’s border policy
The justices’ decision continues their practice of reviewing lower court rulings that have found the president's immigration policies illegal over the past four years.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2019
Commentary: Texan offers Mainers a practical primer on U.S. Border ‘patrolling’
Given a new chief Border Patrol agent's plans to expand warrantless searches here, Mainers should prepare for challenges to their constitutional rights.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2019
Jim Fossel: Collins took right tack to oppose Trump on wall
She rightly supports a new vote to undo the president's emergency declaration, and rightly opposed a Democratic plan to block funds for it and other projects.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2019
UMaine professor compelled to make art at the border
Activist-artist Susan Smith of Dover-Foxcroft has been traveling extensively to Texas.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2019
Focus on Mexican border may cost northern resources, report says
Efforts to reduce staffing shortages on the U.S. border with Canada could be hindered by an executive order signed by President Trump that directs resources south.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2019
Maine Voices: Holocaust comparisons have unintended consequences
The lessons of Hitler's reign of brutality are weakened if every injustice is likened to them.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2019
Maine Voices: Response to discrimination must occur before genocide is on the horizon
Whatever the defining term, we need to focus on the degradation being funded by our tax dollars at the border.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2019
Our View: Human rights abuses at the border must end
Congress cannot show more patience with an administration willing to inflict pain on people who have done us no wrong.
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PublishedJune 25, 2019
Head of Border Protection steps down as outrage grows over migrant children
The government has moved more than 100 children back to a remote Border Patrol station in Texas where children were caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
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