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The Guardian - US
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Cate Brown in Washington

Families in Maine scramble to halt ICE’s transfer of detainees out of state

A masked person points at the tinted driver's side window of a sedan.
A federal agent confronts a protester after agents reportedly detained a person in Portland, Maine. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Family members have been scrambling to learn the whereabouts of more than 200 people arrested during a federal immigration crackdown that has swept across Maine this week, immigration attorneys said, as federal authorities quickly ferried detainees out of the state.

“We were buried in phone calls,” said Jenny Beverly, an immigration attorney with Haven Immigration Law. She said her team worked long hours to locate detainees and stop their transfer out of Maine.

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