Janet Mills: “Many of the people who are being detained or on that list, I…”

“They'Re plans are, what their tactics are? Anything? No, only what I read in the newspaper, as you did in the news, that there's this target of 1400 people. But I'm hearing that 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, people who have children in the school system, people who have children in homes in Maine, and people with no criminal record. And that's concerning. It's obviously very disruptive to a child's life, disruptive to a business, disruptive to a school, to a city and town, and tends to engender a lot of fear and anxiety, naturally, on the part of these families and these communities.” (01:58–02:17)

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