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Janet Mills: “I'd be shocked if they found 1400 people with criminal…”

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FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine

Published January 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:36

Do you believe that there are 1,400 people living in Maine illegally with criminal backgrounds? With criminal backgrounds. Well, let's see the doc. Let's see the documents. I'd be shocked if they found 1400 people with criminal charges against them. But what are we hearing is not that. Anyway. What we're hearing is that people without people with no criminal backgrounds are being detained and subject to perhaps deportation or at least arrest. (07:36–07:43)

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“We have one of the lowest crimes rates in the country, certainly one of the lowest violent crime rates in the country, vie with Vermont…”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 04:20-04:28
“The Supreme Court has said people who are detained because of immigration status, because they're not full citizens, they have a right to a…”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 14:26-14:39
“There have been arrests of people with criminal convictions, but also this target of 1,400 people seems pretty broad.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 00:59-01:09
“Many of the people who are being detained or on that list, I think, are family members here in Maine, people who are working here in Maine…”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 01:58-02:17
“I don't sense that there's any greater, certainly not a greater incidence of crime, crime among non-citizens than there is among citizens…”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 04:43-04:54
“In my experience, you gotta get a judicial warrant to arrest somebody, and it's not automatic.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 05:12-05:19
“We don't believe in secret arrests or secret police. God, that goes back to the Magna Carta, doesn't it?”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 05:26-05:34
“Our law enforcement here in Maine are subject to high training, qualifications, substantial qualifications, professional training, that…”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 05:51-06:05
“People with no criminal backgrounds are being detained and subject to perhaps deportation or at least arrest.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 07:48-07:57
“People who are part of the workforce here in Maine, a workforce that we desperately need and desperately value.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 08:04-08:13
“Schools in Portland and Lewiston in particular have a very fairly high number of children of immigrant families.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 08:41-08:49
“Some of those children just aren't going to school because they're concerned if they come home and their parent isn't there.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 08:51-08:57
“That is still the case.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 09:22-09:24
“No law enforcement officer in Maine is prohibited from coordinating or collaborating on a corporate criminal investigation.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 10:21-10:30
“If it's purely for immigration enforcement, our law enforcement aren't there to enforce federal laws or immigration laws, period.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 10:38-10:48
“Maine State Police have instructed the state police, as my understanding are, and many other departments I think are as well.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 10:50-10:57
“We're hearing about people who have not been engaged in criminal activity, who are being torn from their families.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 12:09-12:18
“We've reached out, we've asked questions, we have no answers.”
FULL PRESSER: Gov. Mills answers questions about ICE's 'Operation Catch of the Day' in Maine | Uploaded January 22, 2026 | 13:02-13:07
“There will be protests, but that they fully intend that the protests, when and if they occur, when they occur, will be peaceful.”
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