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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC)
@maineimmigrants.bsky.social
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We're striving to improve the legal, social and economic conditions experienced by Maine’s immigrants.
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 1h
"Maine immigrant rights groups launch statewide ICE watch hotline" mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/23/m...
Maine immigrant rights groups launch statewide ICE watch hotline • Maine Morning Star
With federal immigration enforcement actions picking up in cities across the country, a coalition of groups in Maine is launching a hotline to protect immigrants from potential harassment and detentio...
mainemorningstar.com
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to the advocates in York County regarding the town of Wells's 287G contract.

This is a significant win for us all, making Maine safer one community at a time. Thank you all for a great job well done!
www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
Wells police department terminates agreement to cooperate with ICE
The agreement, which would have provided training for local officers to enforce certain aspects of federal immigration law, had been on pause since May.
www.mainepublic.org
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 2d
Decision on ICE contract in Cumberland County tabled for 30 days.
www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
Cumberland County commissioners reject amendment to jail contract around holding ICE detainees
The item failed to pass in a 3-2 vote. A motion to reconsider was brought forth, but was tabled for 30 days.
www.newscentermaine.com
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 3d
Tonite in Waldo County.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d
Federal immigration agents have detained an alarming number of U.S. citizens, demonstrating their widespread failure to respect basic protections against wrongful seizures.

“Any one of us could be next,” said Cody Wofsy, Deputy Director of our Immigrants' Rights Project.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
www.propublica.org
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3d
“This Is Ethnic Cleansing”: Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Decries Trump’s Targeting of Immigrants
“This Is Ethnic Cleansing”: Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Decries Trump’s Targeting of Immigrants
Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta, now 95 years old, is continuing her lifelong activism as immigration raids intensify across the country. She addressed the No Kings rally in Watsonville...
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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 3d
Dozens feared dead in the latest Mediterranean shipwreck spark protests in Rome #Refugees
Dozens feared dead in the latest Mediterranean shipwreck spark protests in Rome
www.infomigrants.net
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 9d
We're joining United Way of Southern Maine in developing CA$H Greater Portland (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) to engage community leaders and industry experts in helping individuals and families to achieve long-term financial stability. Want to volunteer? 👉🏽 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 12d
What Is A Fourth Amendment Workplace? Learn from 4thworkplace.org in this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYj0...
4th Amendment Workplaces
YouTube video by Siembra NC
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 15d
Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails

These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission
U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 15d
Our friends in Massachusetts are serving their community by monitoring the agencies separating families and putting immigrants and refugees in danger.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
As ICE ramps up activity in Mass., this group bears witness
Activists connected through an immigrant advocacy group called LUCE are documenting arrests throughout the state. The "ICE watchers" record the names of those detained to make sure they’re accounted f...
www.wbur.org
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 16d
Justice Kavanaugh compared wrongful stops of U.S. citizens to a mild inconvenience. Tell that to those terrorized in a raid in Chicago

As @tusk81.bsky.social noted, "This chaos has not been isolated to major American cities where the admin is engaged in the political targeting of perceived enemies"
Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All
Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.
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AILA @aila.org · 16d
"Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement under President Trump’s second-term push to accelerate deportations." https://on.wsj.com/4nHLcov
Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases
Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.
on.wsj.com
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 20d
Black and Brown school-age children were zip-tied and dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. Americans should be outraged. ICE and this administration's immigration actions against American families have gone too far, and they must end now. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 19d
The Malaga Ship is coming to Bangor...

Rocha's performance tells the story of the 5 million Africans torn from their homelands, forced into slavery in Brazil, due in part to the actions of New Englanders.
🎟️ 👉🏽 eventbrite.com/e/the-malaga-ship-a-story-of-maine-the-middle-passage-tickets-1330893431079
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 22d
"Cumberland County can choose not to be part of this national deportation infrastructure. We need to say 'no more.'"
-Crystal Cron, director of Presente! Maine
www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 26d
Thank you to all who attended MiF 2025! conta.cc/3Imhw0N
Thank you for attending MiF 2025!
Email from Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition Pictures and links from the event   First things first: thank you for registering to join us last week at our second annual Maine Immigration Forum. We ho
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 29d
Read the @mainepublic.org article in full 👇🏾
www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
Maine immigrant groups take stock of challenges and achievements at second annual forum
The event, now in its second year, struck a sober but resolute tone.
www.mainepublic.org
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 29d
"Community is our superpower."
~ Mufalo Chitam
Executive Director, MIRC

Thank you @Mainepublic.org for covering the Maine Immigration Forum.

We'll be sharing our photos and videos from the MiF event soon as well.

#Maine #immigration #migrantjustice #publicmedia
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · 29d
Mark your calendar to join Cross Cultural Community Services, a longtime member of the MIRC family, at their fundraiser next month.

Featuring live performances by Kenya Hall and Suzie Assam

🎟️ Tickets available online, registration required at cccsmaine.org
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · Sep 22
On the morning of September 11, 2025, unidentified agents detained a parent on a school access road shortly after they dropped off their child...

Read our full statement:
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#Maine #immigration #ImmigrantRights #ICE #Border #BorderPatrol
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · Sep 17
Today, September 17th, is Citizenship Day!

On #CitizenshipDay2025 we at MIRC recognize that naturalization is more than a status change; it's a declaration of belonging. It ensures that we are not just spoken about, but are the ones speaking, deciding, and shaping the future.

Learn more ⬇️
Citizenship Day Events - Partnership for New Americans
Partnership for New Americans - Citizenship Day Events
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · Sep 12
The Maine Immigration Forum is one week away! Get your tickets... And come ready to move your hips.
Register here ➡️ eventbrite.com/e/maine-immigration-forum-mif-2025-tickets-982875616427
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · Sep 11
These subsidies to oil and gas giants will continue driving climate refugees around the world as people flee floods, droughts, and the increase in extreme weather incidents globally.

#climatejustice #immigrantjustice #environmentaljustice
publiccitizen.bsky.social Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · Sep 11
$31 billion to prop up an industry that is destroying our planet.

Our government continues to put the interest and profits of the fossil fuel industry over the safety of Americans.

We need to end polluter handouts NOW.
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Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition (MIRC) @maineimmigrants.bsky.social · Sep 10
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a policy memo related to "public charge," (referring to a person deemed likely to become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence).

Three key takeaways from the memo 👇🏾