LePage Says Family Member With Work Permit Faces Deportation as He Backs ICE Crackdown
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 23
LePage Says Family Member With Work Permit Faces Deportation as He Backs ICE Crackdown
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 23
Summary
Paul LePage said his son’s father-in-law is being deported despite holding a work permit and being in the U.S. legally, calling the case “not right.”
The Maine Republican House candidate said he believes the man is being targeted because he came from a country “not the liking to certain people in Washington,” but gave no country or case details.
LePage still endorsed ICE enforcement, drawing a new line between people with long-standing work permits and those he said entered illegally or are involved in gangs and crime.
The case lands as immigration has become a flashpoint in Maine after the Trump administration surged ICE officers into the state in January; in July, an immigration officer fatally shot a man in Biddeford.