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The Expo will also stop accepting new shelter guests after June 5.
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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.
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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.