PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is denouncing a maneuver by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seeming to pressure Minnesota to take submissive actions as a condition for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge into that Midwestern state to be curtailed.

Maine's leading Republican and Democratic officials, now engaged in one of the nation's highest profile Senate races, offered starkly different comments on Friday as a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents racked up their arrest totals.

Federal agents say they are targeting the 'worst of the worst' criminals, but some local officials are questioning their aggressive tactics and noting that several detainees appear to have no criminal record.

Federal immigration officials say more than 100 people have been detained in Maine this week as part of an enforcement surge targeting what ICE calls “the worst of the worst.”

A retail worker arrested at a routine immigration check-in. A mother and a student, both asylum seekers, taken into custody. A civil engineer on a work visa and a corrections officer recruit, whose boss said he has a “squeaky clean” record and permission to work,

Residents have stepped in to bring their children to school, run errands, deliver meals, and are even patrolling neighborhoods in search of immigration agents.

It turns out even Mother Nature and subzero temperatures couldn't put a stop to Mainers love for ice cream.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained a corrections officer recruit in Portland, Maine, on January 21, drawing backlash from the Cumberland County Sheriff, local media reported.Footage here shows a man being pulled from his car on Fox Street on Wednesday evening,