Maine, Minnesota and Susan Collins
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The Maine Republican is under immense pressure as a huge funding package hangs by a thread and federal agents swarm her state.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) asked the Department of Homeland Security to cease its immigration enforcement surge in Maine and Minnesota in the wake of two fatal shootings by immigration enforcement personnel this month.
The Republican is standing by her calls to pass new funding for DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying a new spending bill will include new accountability measures. But she says the operations in Maine are too sweeping and indiscriminate.
Senate candidate Graham Platner brings his message on ICE to Kittery, Maine, while Gov. Mills and Sen. Collins speak out after Minnesota shooting.
Portland police say 50 people were protesting at Collins' office located at 1 Canal Plaza on Tuesday afternoon.
How skilled a politician is she? She is the first senator from Maine to be popularly elected to five consecutive terms, and the only Republican senator to represent a state that Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate,
President Donald Trump is forcing Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) to walk a tightrope on one of the most controversial planks of his immigration agenda, ordering a new wave of ICE raids that is complicating her fight for political survival in Maine.