The Trump administration is using Maine to facilitate its mass deportation efforts. We’re demanding more information about federal operations and how state and local law enforcement may be helping to carry out these cruel policies.

Specifically, we are monitoring how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are using Maine’s state and local law enforcement and detention facilities to detain immigrants. As part of processing and removal operations, ICE and CBP often use state and local law enforcement resources to arrest and detain immigrants. This includes using staff time, facilities like jails and prisons, and vehicles. Once in detention, people are often subject to harsh conditions and transferred between detention facilities without notice, harming their welfare and their access to legal counsel. Valued members of our communities are being detained with little to no information regarding their circumstances. We believe it is crucial for Mainers to know how their public officials are supporting federal immigration enforcement, which often violates people's constitutional rights.

These abuses of power threaten all people, regardless of their immigration status. Actions targeting specific minority groups undermine due process rights for everyone as power is consolidated and our system of checks and balances is dismantled.

We’ll continue to update this page as we receive records concerning Maine law enforcement’s involvement with Trump’s dangerous and unprecedented mass deportation efforts.