Rep. Chellie Pingree

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The Find Out Podcast · Rep. Chellie Pingree Breaks Down the Maine ICE Killing · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And I hear that from so many employers.

And if you think about it, what often employers will say to me is without my immigrant workers, I can't employ my, you know, lifelong Mainers because I don't have, you know, the critical mass.

And that's especially true in the service industry, as you said, but many, many of our hospitals and nursing homes are.

are, you know, dependent on the new Mainers who have come to work there.

And also many of them come with a higher level of degree attainment.

You know, we, we think about them being in the service industry, but that's often because they can't get their medical license renewed when they get here, but their former engineers and teachers, you know, educators, they're just, they're an amazing range of people who come, they're trying to learn the language as fast as they can.

And they really are.

They're trying to make a better life.

They're trying to be safe.

If they used to be in a war-torn country, you know, many of the asylum seekers were working against the government in the country that they were in.

Or there was gang violence.

I mean, there's a whole variety of reasons people came.

But you're right.

They're a critical part of our workforce.

And you especially see it in the medical system where, you know, they're making the difference today.

If you have a grandmother in a nursing home, you're very lucky that there's a new manor they're taking care of.

This is not a forthcoming administration.

You know, that would be very unusual information.

And on any level, I mean, even Trump 1.0 compared to Trump 2.0, they, they don't talk to us any more than they possibly have to, even on the committees, you know, where I'm the ranking member or anything else.

Um, now it's not to say, uh, you know, Mark Wayne Mullen, secretary of Homeland security has talked to every member of the delegation.

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