Rep. Chellie Pingree Breaks Down the Maine ICE Killing
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Find Out Podcast. We have a very special show today because it's all about Maine, which everybody knows I love to talk about all the time. These guys sort of roll their eyes at me sometimes, but we are fortunate to have the Congresswoman from the 1st District of Maine, my home district, Congresswoman Shelley Pingree is here today. Congresswoman, how are you?
I'm great. Thanks so much for having me.
Well, thanks. Thanks for joining us. And very, very glad that you have joined us. Obviously, we have some things that are not super light to talk about. And we want to start off with this horrific shooting that ICE committed in Biddeford earlier this week. Want to just get your initial thoughts, where we stand in the investigation for that, what your understanding is of who they were looking for, all that stuff. And then we can kind of go from there.
Sure. Well, it's a horrific, horrible, horrible shooting. I was actually headed to D.C. on Monday and decided to take a later flight so I could stop down to Biddeford and, you know, just took a look at the scene of the shooting. There was a vigil going on in the local park and people were just so incredibly upset and have continued to be. And I'm really proud of Mainers for being out there on the street saying this is not acceptable. for the Biddeford community, you know, truly rallying around this individual's family and so many others and just caring so deeply about all of the new Mainers who are our friends and neighbors and coworkers. They are not illegal aliens as the president and others call them.
They are, you know, our friends and neighbors. This, as you know, the wrong individual was shot. It wasn't even the person they were allegedly targeting. And my understanding of the person they were going after, it was very flimsy as so many of these claims are when they go to pick people up. I don't know how much you want me to get into the weeds, but I have an office in Portland. We handle an enormous amount of constituent work of people who are new Mainers or some of them who have been here many years, but under this current iteration of the Trump administration, they've been targeted And we have a steady stream of people who come into our office sometimes just to try to get their work permit renewed in a really difficult climate.
But often it's someone who's looking for a family member who's been picked up and detained and they aren't even sure where they are. We have individuals who are afraid to leave their home because they know they're targeted and they're meant to go to work or school.
What happened in the Biddeford ICE shooting and why is it being called a botched raid?
Um, and we do everything we can. I was actually down in Dilley detention center in may to try to see if we could free up a 19 year old girl. Um, And luckily, we did manage to get her out a couple of days later. But she had been there for six months. You know, nursing student working as a CNA. Family has a legitimate asylum claim. They're just waiting to go through the court process. So this was another horrendous thing. And my feeling is nobody should get, you know, in their car, drive out their driveway and worry that they might be shot and never see their three-year-old child again.
Well, right. I think that, you know, one of the important things here is that the three-year-old child was in the back seat, I believe, when this happened, which is about as horrific as it possibly gets. But the other thing I want to tell, because obviously a lot of people don't know much about Maine because we are up in the corner there. But can you just talk a little bit about the community of Biddeford? Because it is not a place that has shootings on any sort of regular basis.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:07
2
What happened in the Biddeford ICE shooting and why is it being called a botched raid?
3:07–6:34
3
How did Congresswoman Pingree describe the victim and community reaction in Biddeford?
6:34–10:32
4
Why are Maine immigrants afraid to leave home and how are ICE operations changing locally?
10:32–36:22
5
What economic impacts are ICE raids having on Maine employers, hospitals and local businesses?
36:22–37:37