Susan Collins Claims ICE Is Ending Maine Surge |
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Catch of the Day, a disturbingly named immigration operation in Maine, which the agency said aimed to remove the “worst of the worst” in the state. What followed was familiar from previous such actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere: reports of residents without criminal records being detained, plummeting school-attendance rates as children stayed home en masse, and allegations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were following and threatening demonstrators.
But Senator Susan Collins, considered one of the most vulnerable Republican incumbents seeking reelection this year, announced Thursday that ICE operations will soon be ramping down in Maine following conversations she had with Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem. “While the Department of........