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Border agents arrested 725 people in the state during the fiscal year that ended in October.
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Lucas Segobia spent weeks in ICE detention in Texas earlier this year following a traffic stop in Maine.
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The ACLU argues border agents overstepped their authority in stopping the car and briefly detaining a bystander.
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The hotline is intended in part to provide reliable information amid a flood of unverified social media posts.
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The three men, all from Ecuador, are challenging the legal basis of their detention by Border Patrol in Maine.
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Edgard Vicente Bermeo Sicha was arrested earlier this summer and transferred to ICE custody in Texas.
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Edgar Vicente Bermeo Sicha was arrested in Maine in July, and has since been transferred to ICE custody in Texas.
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ICE arrested 27 people through late July, according to the Deportation Data Project.
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But the agency did not provide details about the person's identity or the operations of the criminal group.
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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.