November 2025

Dear MIRC Community, Happy Black Friday to all who shop!  Your humble narrator had the rare gift of spending Thanksgiving with my family and celebrating my brother’s birthday for the first time in 10 years. It’s incredible to call Maine home and feel the connections I’ve built here. Still, moments like this remind me how […]

READ IT ONLINE WITH LIVE LINKS AND MORE PICTURES Celebrating Gratitude, Family & Culture It’s been a difficult moment to focus on thankfulness, with so many people are being torn from their families by detention or deportation and with basic services cut or threatened among the most vulnerable. But in these trying times, we want

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19th, 2025 Contact: Ruben Torres, Advocacy and Policy Manager  rtorres@maineimmigrantrights.org  Statement from the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition on DHS’s Proposed Public Charge Rule PORTLAND, MAINE – The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (MIRC) is deeply concerned by today’s announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposing to rescind the current

Dear MIRC Community, Happy Monday! I apologize for my delayed advocacy updates; your author has been bouncing around time zones and even spent a few days in a new state while doing a deep dive on child care policy. Fret not, we will return to our regularly scheduled program!  As I am sure some of

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov 18, 2025 Maine, statewide — The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (MIRC) is honored to announce the start of a two-year project to research how to develop and grow cultural food hubs and strengthen food and land projects in Maine. Here is a video highlighting the work of project partners. The project

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