Ari Snider
Report for America reporterAri Snider reports on refugee, immigrant, and asylum-seeking communities in Maine. He is a Report for America corps member. He grew up in Midcoast Maine and has reported for public radio stations in Southeast Alaska and Far West Texas, covering everything from salmon fishing to the restoration of a historic adobe church on the US-Mexico border. He got his start in audio storytelling as an undergrad at Brown University and through internships at radio stations in Vermont and Rhode Island. His work has won three Alaska Press Club awards and one Regional Murrow Award, and has aired on radio stations throughout Alaska, Texas, and New England. When looking to get out of town for a weekend, Ari has a special fondness for the islands of Penobscot Bay and the lakes and mountains of the North Woods.
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Advocates say some have already received eviction notices ahead of a June 30 deadline for motels to cease operating as de facto emergency shelters. -
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services South Portland field office has been operational since 2021, but the pandemic delayed a public ribbon cutting.
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More than 100 asylum seekers had arrived in Sanford since last week, including some who had left shelters in Portland in hopes of finding better housing.
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At an emergency meeting on Tuesday night, city officials in Sanford addressed confusion and concern over the unexpected arrival of more than 100 asylum seekers in the last week.
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Many of the new arrivals said they had been turned away from at-capacity shelters in Portland.
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Many asylum seekers rely on GA because they are ineligible for other aid programs, and must wait months before gaining work authorization.
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Both international and domestic migration is pushing Maine's population higher, even as deaths continue to outpace births.
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Community members described sleepless nights and overwhelming anxiety as they watched the conflict unfold from afar.
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Fowsia Musse was visiting family in eastern Ethiopia when a soldier at an airport opened fire, gravely wounding Musse and killing her sister, a regional elected official.
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Bondeko blends Albanian folk songs, West African drumming, and Western guitar styles.
