Millions face tough choice amid immigration crackdown: Leave the US or risk detention

What to do if you're a U.S. citizen and immigration authorities tell you to leave the country

U.S. immigration authorities issued a blunt warning in an unprecedented mass email to individuals living in the country on temporary protected status: “It is time for you to leave the United States.” Titled “Notice of Termination of Parole,” the email declared: “If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States — unless you have othe…

Maine businesses worry as immigration crackdown ramps up

Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious techno-color display to come. By late spring, roughly 47,000 acres across Washington and Hancock counties will be carpeted in white blossoms before bursting into tiny blueberries. But new federal immigration policies and ramped-up deportations have businesses across the state — especially in rural, agricultural com…

Millions face tough choice amid immigration crackdown: Leave the US or risk detention

In an ideal world, Michelle would be a nurse helping patients in her homeland, Haiti. Gangs shattered those dreams when she narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt while walking to her Port-au-Prince nursing school in 2022.