Trump's ICE Surge In Maine Complicates Life For GOP Sen. Susan Collins
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The Maine senator's Democratic challengers are calling on her to do more to address ICE's tactics and its crackdown on immigrants across the country.
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) said she did not see a need for ICE agents to swarm into her state, which has one of the smallest immigrant populations in the country.
“I don’t see the rationale for a large number of ICE agents to come in,” she told HuffPost at the time.
President Donald Trump’s administration disagreed, and the crackdown coming to Maine is making life difficult for Collins, who’s facing renewed attacks for not doing enough to stand up to Trump as the chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee.
“Congress, including Susan Collins, should curtail funding for ICE until they stop their aggressive tactics that are just instilling fear and anxiety in people across the state,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat who is vying to challenge Collins in November’s elections, said in a statement on Friday.
“We will not turn a blind eye as this president threatens the rights of our people here in Maine, and we will continue to stand for the rights and values that Maine people have always stood for,” said Mills, a former state attorney general who is running with the backing of Democratic leadership.
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