The Department of Homeland Security's 'Operation Catch of the Day' has been strongly criticized by many Democratic leaders but welcomed by Republicans.

Officials in Maine on Tuesday said they would halt federal immigration officers from being granted undercover license plates as reports of statewide enforcement operations surface. “The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles received a request for confidential,

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that the mass deportation effort in Maine, dubbed "Operation Catch of the Day," officially got underway Tuesday.

Republican legislators are blaming Gov. Janet Mills for the rumored increase in immigration operations in Maine because she allowed a new law to limit local cooperation with federal agents.

The prospects of ramped-up federal immigration enforcement in Maine’s two largest cities elicited strong responses from state and local elected leaders that — not surprisingly — fell largely along partisan lines.