Action Items to choose from (or do all of them: your choice!) Scroll down to the matching number of your option:
- Stop ICE
- Keep ICE out of Maine
Reminder: When you call vs when you email via our reps’ websites (best way to contact them in writing), don’t forget to begin with: “Hi, my name is [name] and I’m constituent calling from [zip code]. That is important, because if they don’t know you’re actually a constituent, your opinion will be ignored.
Contact info:
Angus King
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292
Susan Collins
DC: (202) 224-2523
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417
Chellie Pingree
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019
Waterville: (207) 873-5713
Jared Golden
DC: (202) 225-6306
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767
Find your State Representative:
By name: Here
By district: Here
(Please note that for those of you receiving this email who are not represented by Senators or House members in our district, I have to leave it up to you to find the contact info for your own representatives.)
Actions
1) Stop ICE:
What ICE is doing right now in Minneapolis is beyond the beyond. They are crashing cars, smashing windows, pulling people out of their cars, using mace, pepper bombs, and rubber bullets. They are forcing their way into homes, guns drawn, and using internal DHS “administrative warrants” as their excuse, even though only a real judicial warrant, signed by a judge, can compel someone to open their door and let someone enter their home. Apparently they are driving recklessly, running lights, and going the wrong direction on one-way streets. David Frum wrote in The Atlantic that the main purpose of ICE’s violence “has become theatrical…. ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator.” And Heather Cox Richardson described them thusly: “[They are] decked out as if they are [in] a war zone while parading in groups through the suburbs, cosplaying as military heroes.”
Congress’s failure to do anything to stop the violence, lawlessness, and unconstitutionality that are ICE’s modus operandi is appalling. Contact Senators King and Collins and Congressman Golden to demand that ICE be defunded and abolished, Kristi Noem impeached, and the officer who executed Renee Good arrested and charged. Nothing less is acceptable. (If you have had an encounter with ICE or CBP agents, or have witnessed them in action, or know someone who has experienced either, share your story.)
And while you have them on the phone or are writing to them, also tell them that Trump’s DOJ needs to drop its sham criminal investigation into Jerome Powell now, before the Central Bank loses its independence and tanks our economy.
2) Keep ICE out of Maine:
Believable rumor has it that ICE and CBP will shortly be coming to southern Maine. Supposedly they are going to send in several hundred agents and stay only a week, but that’s pretty much how the whole mess in Minnesota began. We can’t let them get a foothold in our state. There are moves our state can make:
- Use the National Guard to protect our citizens.
- Arrest agents who commit crimes.
- Charge police, National Guard, CBP, and ICE with crimes when they commit or refuse to stop them: Issue arrest warrants for anyone like Renee Good’s murderer, Jonathan Ross, who commits violence against our communities. Don’t wait for an investigation or the next election: File charges immediately and follow through. Let the Federal Government sue the state—as Governor Mills said, “We’ll see you in court.”
See:
—www.politico.com/news/2026/01/11/states-move-to-rein-in-ice-after-fatal-minnesota-shooting-00721208
—open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/democrats-must-seize-the-opportunity
—www.aclumaine.org/preparingforice/
Contact Governor Janet Mills (Governor Janet Mills: 207-287-3531 or https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/contact/share-your-opinion) to urge her to temporarily pause her campaign for Senator to focus on protecting Mainers from Kristi Noem and DHS. After all, if she doesn’t do everything she can to prevent Maine’s cities from turning into Minneapolis (or Chicago or Oregon’s Portland, etc.), she’ll lose the Senate race anyway. To her credit, she has allowed LD1971 to become law (it won’t take effect until spring) and repealed Paul LePage’s 2011 executive order that called for enhanced cooperation between State and Federal officials on immigration enforcement. But that’s not enough.
Contact Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (207-626-8800 or email attorney.general@maine.gov) and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (207-626-8400 or https://www.maine.gov/sos/about-us/contact-us-form) and demand that they take every legal step they can to prevent Maine from collaborating with ICE and CBP and to protect Mainers from being harassed or attacked.
If you’re up for more active involvement, you can get trained as an ICE Watch hotline operator (https://docs.google.com/document/d/12sMC66ep3CZT2-p5BQSbiFRYOO3J0MkoZjroDcNTr3U/edit). Also make sure everyone you know—especially immigrants and people of color—have the number for Maine’s ICE Watch hotline: 207-544-9989.
Yours in Civic Action,
Bold Coast Civic Alliance
