Illegal Immigration Is Battering Maine’s Cruise Ship Industry: Senator

Published on April 24, 2024

Maine’s cruise ship industry is feeling the impact of illegal immigration. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has indicated it can no longer provide agents to meet international cruises this summer scheduled to dock in Eastport, Maine, according to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the only Republican representing any of the six New England states in Congress. Ms. Collins said the agents were transferred to the southern border to help with the massive influx of illegal immigrants there under President Joe Biden’s open border policy. “This is the flip side of the problems that we are now seeing on the southwest border also creating problems on the northwest border and the northern border in general,” Ms. Collins said....