By Lauren McCauley | Editor
“That moment reminded all of us that the decisions and the role that government plays in our lives are not abstract.” - Ruben Torres of the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, on the slate of new anti-ICE laws taking effect less than two weeks after a Biddeford man was killed by federal agents.
Protesters gathered outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine on July 14, 2026, one day after an ICE officer killed a man in Biddeford. (Photo by Eesha Pendharkar/Maine Morning Star)
IMMIGRATION
By Emma Davis
As President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics face renewed scrutiny after the fatal shooting of a man in Biddeford, new Maine laws take effect Wednesday that prevent local resources and agencies from being used to support mass deportation efforts.
JUSTICE
By Emma Davis
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision that struck down limits on independent political spending does not need to be overturned to rein in Big Money in politics, Neal Katyal argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston on Wednesday in defense of Maine’s 2024 referendum regulating political spending.
IMMIGRATION
By Lauren McCauley
Members of the Scarborough Town Council voted Wednesday to pass a proclamation calling on Maine’s congressional delegation to look into the operations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in the town after a federal agent shot and killed a man in Biddeford earlier this month.
But residents who spoke at the town council meeting said the proclamation doesn’t go far enough.
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