Immigration

Malunda Destino was arrested last week at a gas station in Scarborough, according to his friends.

Edgar Vicente Bermeo Sicha was arrested in Maine in July, and has since been transferred to ICE custody in Texas.

The $18 million is for infrastructure improvements at the International Jetport including replacing aging aircrafts, new bathrooms and snow removal equipment.

Michel Tshimankinda is active in multiple local church communities, according to friends and family.

Lewiston Police confirmed the 31-year-old man from Angola and his passenger were detained over the weekend.

ICE arrested 27 people through late July, according to the Deportation Data Project.

Mills plans to hold onto the legislation, which would have limited how much local and state police in Maine can collaborate with federal immigration agents seeking to round up and deport non-citizens.

Speakers at the rally urged attendees to join an effort to get the Cumberland County Jail to stop housing people for ICE.

Immigration lawyers say many of the arrests are the result of informal cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agencies. The state legislature is debating a bill to restrict that cooperation.

The group No ICE for ME says it's collected nearly 3,000 signatures on a petition to end cooperation with ICE.