{"id":18291,"date":"2026-01-28T00:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/janet-mills-maine-will-not-be-intimidated-amid-ongoing-ice-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:31:45","slug":"janet-mills-maine-will-not-be-intimidated-amid-ongoing-ice-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/janet-mills-maine-will-not-be-intimidated-amid-ongoing-ice-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Mills: Maine \u2018will not be intimidated\u2019 amid ongoing ICE surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>AUGUSTA, Maine \u2014 Gov. Janet Mills issued a dire warning in her annual address to state lawmakers Tuesday night: The federal immigration raids sweeping the state are part of an ongoing attack on democracy nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The speech from Mills, who is a leading Democratic challenger to Republican Senator Susan Collins, marks perhaps the most prominent example of how the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive immigration raids have upended communities \u2014 and potentially electoral politics \u2014 around the country. The crackdown has become a political crisis for the White House in recent days following two fatal shootings by federal officers in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight, I say to the people of Maine: We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced,\u201d Mills said. \u201cAnd to anyone outside these halls, including any federal officials, I say: if you seek to harm Maine people, you will have to go through me first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic governor\u2019s defiant State of the State address on Tuesday came as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/21\/ice-maine-dhs-trump-00740138\" target=\"_blank\">a sweeping ICE operation in Maine<\/a> has led to hundreds of arrests and prompted widespread protests throughout the state since it began last week. The killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers this weekend has amplified those pressures \u2014 and the political stakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUGUSTA, Maine \u2014 Gov. Janet Mills issued a dire warning in her annual address to state lawmakers Tuesday night: The federal immigration raids sweeping the state are part of an ongoing attack on democracy nationwide. The speech from Mills, who is a leading Democratic challenger to Republican Senator Susan Collins, marks perhaps the most prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}