Approximately 20 clergy members and faith leaders from across Maine gathered Thursday morning at Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse to condemn…
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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration announced Sunday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers will soon be required to…
The Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is considering whether to endorse former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson…
By Jon Fetherston A young man is dead. That is where this story begins, and that is where our focus…
A tragedy is not a license to tear down the system. Thirty-six hours after a fatal ICE encounter in Biddeford,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump delivered a roughly 30-minute primetime address from the White House Thursday night, focusing on…
U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to work closely…
Senate Democrats were largely absent Wednesday as the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened a hearing, on Wednesday,…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should temporarily suspend non-emergency vehicle stops while investigators determine…
Republican gubernatorial nominee Bobby Charles said Thursday that Maine’s sanctuary policies have undermined cooperation between state, local, and federal law…
Gov. Janet Mills traveled to Biddeford on Wednesday to meet with city officials, legislators and the family of the man…
Biddeford Mayor Liam LaFountain demanded a permanent end to ICE traffic stops and questioned why ICE agents were not wearing…
President Donald Trump reversed course on the widely reported end to ICE traffic stops on Wednesday morning in a statement…
ICE ordered its agents on Tuesday to cease vehicle stops in immigration enforcement activities following the fatal shooting of Joan…
The limp rag doll known as the Portland Press Herald pretended Monday to be nonpartisan. But true to form the…
For years, Mainers have been told everything is fine. If you question the direction of the state, you’re accused of…
LEWISTON, Maine — Lewiston has spent much of the past year grappling with an alarming rise in violent crime, juvenile shootings,…
An estimated 627 non-citizen MaineCare recipients are set to lose their taxpayer-funded healthcare on October 1 following changes made by…
Maine’s Office of New Americans (ONA) announced that self-described “opportunity optimizer” and longtime Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and migrant…
The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday to uphold the country’s current understanding of birthright citizenship, striking down President…
The U.S. Treasury Department has permanently barred from the banking industry a former Quontic Bank mortgage officer who originated dozens…
The United States Supreme Court upheld the federal government’s authority to turn away people at the border before they have…
A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling could dramatically reshape the future for thousands of Haitian migrants who were housed in…
A federal judge ruled Monday that voter registration records cannot be run through the recently overhauled Systematic Alien Verification for…
The United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump Administration Tuesday in a case concerning the federal…
President Donald Trump has signed a $70 billion spending package into law that will fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
WATERVILLE, Maine – Waterville Police Chief Bill Bonney told The Maine Wire in an interview Tuesday morning that his opposition…
The White House released an update on its war against fraud on Tuesday shortly before a press conference from Vice…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) empowered ICE to crack down on immigration attorneys who facilitate fraudulent asylum claims in…
LEWISTON, Maine – Lewiston City Councilor Chrissy Noble is facing backlash after posting inflammatory comments on social media directed at…
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has announced a major shift in immigration policy that will require most foreign nationals living…
President Donald Trump spoke to the press from the Oval Office Thursday ahead of an expected ruling from the United…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) sent a letter to the lawyer representing Gateway Community Services last…
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States — and most Americans don’t know it. On this episode of…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating immigration fraud allegations against Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) Vice President J.D.…
LEWSITON, Maine – Matthew Theriault of Mid Valley Motors Towing and Recovery filed a harassment order Friday against Lewiston community…
$1 billion in fraud. A non-verbal child found at a mosque. Maine law enforcement told to “stand down” on Chinese…
The “lifestyle” columnist for Maine’s largest daily is worried that the state’s largest city is losing the fight to newcomers.…
LEWISTON, Maine – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Lewiston man from Angola during a targeted operation on May 6,…
LEWISTON, Maine — Lewiston taxpayers are expected to rally outside City Hall tonight as anger over the city’s first property…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case concerning the federal government’s efforts to end temporary…
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Team filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against California-based tech company Cloudera for allegedly…
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce promised on Monday that the Cumberland County Jail will continue to house some ICE detainees…
A home health care business with ties to the infamous alleged fraud front Gateway Community Services faced an audit with…
VERMONT — Vermont left-wing activists have engineered a mock-tour attraction of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of…
LEWISTON, Maine — The Lewiston City Council voted 5–2 Tuesday night to give final passage to an amendment to the…
A Somali immigrant living in Auburn who founded a translation service business tied to a home health operation billing millions…
MaineCare auditors attempted to recoup nearly $450,000 from the Somali-run Affinity Homecare, co-located with Rep. Yusuf Yusuf’s (D-Portland) shady Care…
LEWISTON, Maine — Hundreds of tips about adult autism group homes have poured into The Maine Wire in recent days…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took steps to combat Somali fraud on Friday with a new anonymous reporting portal for…
LEWISTON, Maine — The Lewiston City Council is poised to fast-track an emergency ordinance aimed at limiting how city employees…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is throwing her weight behind the House-passed SAVE America Act, saying the revised bill strikes…
Maine Director of Elections and Voter Registration Heidi Peckham sent out a notice to municipal clerks warning them to follow…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Susan Collins (R) says she secured new funding and legislative language aimed at combating Chinese-linked illicit…
WASHINGTON – A national coalition of left-leaning advocacy groups led by the ACLU hosted a Monday night virtual training dubbed…
PORTLAND, Maine – ICE deputy assistant director is firing back at the growing chorus of Maine media and political criticism…
The Maine Wire can exclusively confirm that ICE agents arrested an Angolan national who has been working as a York…
Dozens of federal agents working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security probed multiple locations in Lewiston on Tuesday that…
YouTuber Nick Shirley posted video Friday showing multiple purported Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota, including one which reportedly received…
Democratic Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan praised Somali migrants in the state during a visit to a market in a…
The U.S. Border Patrol Houlton Sector arrested an Ecuadorian illegal immigrant in Rangeley early this month with a criminal history…
The widening rift between Maine’s Democratic leadership and federal immigration authorities intensified Thursday after state Sen. Matt Harrington (R) posted…
Gov. Janet mills (D) announced on Monday she will allow a bill restricting how Maine law enforcement may cooperate with U.S. Immigration…
The federal government is threatening to pull $73 million in transportation funding from New York over what officials say is…
Just months after two tragic incidents in which illegal immigrants killed pedestrians while operating under Maine driver’s licenses, the taxpayer-funded…
The Trump Administration has rolled out TrumpCard.gov, a new federal portal outlining the structure of the high-dollar immigration initiative known…
Another day in Lewiston brought yet another cascade of questions, contradictions, and controversies, from nonprofit leaders refusing to comment, to…
Illegal border crossers who need sanctuary from U.S. limits on their conveniently discovered “freedoms” have a home in Rockland, Maine.…
An MSAD 72 elementary school student being transported to an out-of-district placement by a substitute van driver went missing for…
In a seismic move that has rattled Democrats and immigration activists nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear…
An Iraqi national living unlawfully in the United States was arrested in Ellsworth after federal agents say he attempted to…
Lewiston, Maine, once stood as a monument to American resilience, a booming mill city powered by the Androscoggin River, strengthened…
More than 500 Portland-area high school students walked out of class Wednesday and marched through the city’s downtown in a…
Trump administration officials said Tuesday they will move to withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting…
Federal authorities are preparing a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota aimed at Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the United…
Residents in Lyman say tractor-trailers continue to travel down Route 35 southbound despite the road being clearly closed as crews…
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Maine’s provision of Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens. But…
An Indian man accused of killing two individuals in a horrific highway crash entered the United States unlawfully under the…
The Trump administration’s sharp escalation of immigration enforcement is creating new uncertainty across Maine’s immigrant and refugee communities, recent reports…
White House border czar Tom Homan predicted Sunday the Trump administration will deport the majority of Third World migrants due…
ICE agents were allegedly spotted on the University of Maine Farmington Campus last week, inspiring taxpayer-funded professors to attempt recording…
A Mexican national with a lengthy history of unlawful entries and repeated removals appeared in federal court Tuesday, pleading not…
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican illegal aliens earlier this month when they were found working for a paving…
Federal prosecutors on Thursday moved to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot multiple times by a Maine-based Border…
Maine’s northern border continues to see elevated levels of illegal crossings and apprehensions, marking a historic trend that began during…
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is ending deportation protections for Somali nationals living in Minnesota, effective immediately. In…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has enacted a major regulatory change that will bar undocumented immigrants and other non-qualified…
A Guatemalan national and convicted sex offender who illegally returned to the United States after deportation was taken into custody…
The United States Supreme Court has granted the Trump Administration’s request to review the 9th Circuit’s decision in a case…
A pair of Democrat-appointed judges temporarily paused the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migrant truck drivers. The U.S. Court of…
Maine will only resettle 50 refugees through the federal refugee program in the 2026 fiscal year after President Donald Trump…
What began as a string of odd, apparent ATM malfunctions Maine towns turned out to be part of a sophisticated…
Local prosecutors charged a Mexican man currently serving as mayor of a small American city with unlawfully voting multiple times…
The Trump Administration has removed SNAP benefits from nearly 700,000 people receiving them illegally, based on recipient data provided by…
The principal of Mt. Blue Middle School in Farmington is under fire after dressing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
The Trump Administration has drastically reduced the refugee admission cap for fiscal year 2026, dropping it from 125,000 to just…
A coalition of pro-illegal immigrant nonprofits established a Maine hotline last week for people to report sightings of Immigration and…
It’s easy to see why President Trump wants to ban illegals from driving tractor-trailer trucks. If you can’t speak English…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat running to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins during the midterm elections, is under fire…
Republican lawmakers are pushing for permanent fixes to address the startling number of illegal migrant truckers wreaking havoc on American…