1 of 5 | Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends an Assumption of Command Ceremony for Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Jan. 15. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that Noem told her that ICE has ended enhanced enforcement efforts in Maine. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Sen. Susan Collins announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement have ended enhanced enforcement in Maine.
Collins, R-Maine, said she spoke with Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who told her the news.
“I can report that Secretary Noem has informed me that ICE has ended its enhanced activities in the State of Maine,” Collins wrote on X.
“I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state. I appreciate the Secretary’s willingness to listen to and consider my recommendations and her personal attention to the situation in Maine. ICE and Customs and Border Patrol will continue their normal operations that have been ongoing here for many years,” she added.
“I will continue to work with the Secretary on efforts to end illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and other transnational criminal activity.”
Collins hasn’t joined her colleagues Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who have called for Noem to resign.
Homeland Security began Operation Catch of the Day last week. DHS told CBS News that it had taken people from Angola, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Sudan with criminal histories.
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