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Bangor committee weighs local action on 287(g) and LD 1259 as state bill advances
Summary
Residents and legislators urged the advisory committee to recommend the city ban cooperation with federal immigration enforcement (287(g)); committee members debated whether to wait for state action on LD 1259 or ask the council to act now.
Members of the Advisory Committee on Racial Equity, Inclusion and Human Rights spent a substantial portion of their May 27 meeting discussing 287(g) immigration-enforcement agreements and a pending state bill, identified in the meeting as LD 1259, that would limit cooperation between state or local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
Representative Sean Faircloth spoke to the committee and urged local action in addition to backing state legislation. Faircloth said the problem is not “the people who work for ICE” but the directives those employees have received, and argued that due process…
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