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Our View: Maine delegation needs to be louder on asylum seeker work authorization

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion March 04, 2023

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Around this time last year, Rep. Chellie Pingree for her introduction of the Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act, which sought to make a person seeking asylum eligible to work 30 days after filing their asylum application. Pedro Afonso Maria Miguel, right, sits Feb. 9 with his daughter Jamila Miguel, 7, on chairs on which the family slept at the Portland Family Shelter. Miguel, his wife, Anadia Miguel, center, and their children are asylum... + full article



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