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Dear MIRC Community, Welcome to Friday! Due to scheduling, this will be the final Advocacy Update of 2025. Over the past year, we have covered a wide range of developments and worked to keep you informed about what is happening across the country, throughout Maine, and in our local communities. Through it all, we’ve made […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ruben Torres, Advocacy and Policy Manager, rtorres@maineimmigrantrights.org  PORTLAND, MAINE - Over the past several weeks, the country has witnessed increasingly hostile rhetoric from the Executive Office, including repeated verbal attacks on Somali, Afghan, and other immigrant communities, culminating in the December 2, 2025, announcement of a halt on immigration applications, including

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

para Inglés / para otros idiomas Menú de opciones Otras líneas directas de ICE Watch en Nueva Inglaterra ⬇️ Conozca sus derechos Todas las personas que residen en los EE. UU. tienen derechos—no importa su estatus de ciudadanía. Tome un momento para familiarizarse con SUS derechos personales. No se puede ejercer los derechos si uno

Dear MIRC Community, Welcome to Friday!  If you want to end the Halloween party early this weekend, don't invite country singer Brad Paisley! Typically, a baseball game goes 9 innings; however, the two World Series games that have ever gone to 18 innings have one thing in common: Brad Paisley sang the national anthem. (For the record, two

READ IT ONLINE WITH LIVE LINKS AND MORE PICTURES Maine ICE Watch Hotline Goes Live On October 23 we joined members and partner organizations in launching a statewide hotline to assist our community in monitoring federal law enforcement activity that targets people based on the way they look, how they talk, and their countries of