“I don’t see the rationale for a large number of ICE agents to come in,” she told HuffPost at the time. “Congress, including Susan Collins, should curtail funding for ICE until they stop their aggressive tactics that are just instilling fear and anxiety in people across the state,” Maine Gov. ICE agents have often used violent tactics to go after immigrants in Minnesota as well as in Maine. The military veteran and oyster fisherman urged his followers to meet ICE agents with resistance and said he planned to join protests against ICE in Maine this weekend. Collins has avoided criticizing ICE tactics directly, other than to say people who are in this country legally should not be targets of ICE investigations.

Source: Huffington Post January 24, 2026 03:43 UTC