Posted on 08/10/2016 12:31:29 AM PDT by blueplum
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Donald Trump's characterization of Somalis as dangerous and a drag on resources could undo years of work that they have done to establish themselves in the country's whitest state, Somali residents said Friday.
Trump told a packed audience in Portland on Thursday that Maine is a "major destination" for Somali refugees and that they're coming from some of the "most dangerous" places. All told, about 10,000 Somalis lives in Portland and Lewiston, Maine's largest cities. [snip] On Friday afternoon, Somali organizers held a rally on the steps of City Hall to respond to Trump. One read a statement from Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, that called Trump's comments "disparaging" and "unhelpful."
Portland resident and immigrant organizer Pious Ali, originally from Ghana, said before the meeting that "an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us as a community."
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I wish these folks who are so easily offended by Trump would also by as readily outspoken when Muslims kill in the name of their god
They tell us about something Trump said and we’re supposed to be alarmed? What a joke.
I guess we’re all supposed to forget about what the reckless decline and disastrous country killing policies those in D.C. have brought us for decades.
A drag on the state?
How many of them are on SNAP, welfare, SS Medical, etc?
How many of them came here explicitly for that reason?
I know of lot of Sierra Leone natives who desperately try to get Visas to America knowing they can get money once they are there.
No WE’RE not alarmed but few can withstand 24/7 attacks in a battle.
Trump has to sleep. The networks do not.
Trump doesn’t have four 24 hour news networks working FOR him.
He needs to get his soldiers on the attack, i.e., Rudy, Christie, Newt?.
Rudy killed them on sunday morning and at the speech again today.
We have to keep hammering away at twitter too. Lots of young votes to be swayed by their hatred of hillary.
And we need to destroy this “conservative” mormon who wants to run before he gets off the ground.
Some of us dont have republicans to reach out to. But my rep. on Staten Island is conservative. My 2 senators SUCK.
And we need to throw trump 5 or 10 bucks whenever we can. he needs 100 million for commercials in october.
He won the primaries without spending anything almost.
That’s great. This ain’t the primaries
Stop worrying about the networks. Few even watch their BS anymore. My TV is cold 95% of the time. They’re old school, and no longer control the news. Learn it.
yup. You’d figure that with 10,000 between two towns, they’d be able to rustle up a hundred or so for a nice little disavow jihad march in the park. They know where city hall is, tho.
I would guess that 90% if not 100% of them are on WELFARE....TAKING OUR MONEY!! They are truly taking over everywhere they are because they are brought in by such HUGE numbers and stay in the same circle.
True words
30 million viewers. What should I learn. That 30 million viewers means nothing?
Those who think that the media hasn’t had a HUGE effect on this election are lying to themselves and will contribute to our losing
BTW, 30 million is the low end of the scale.
Ditto that
Abdullahi Abdullahi, the president of the Somali Community Development Organization in Clarkston, tells Somalis that, unlike Georgia, Maine has terribly cold winters, but “the welfare system is better.” Better for sure. Lewiston provides welfare to anyone in need, and the state picks up half the tab. Recipients are allowed a generous five years of assistance before benefits are terminated, and, even at that point, extensions are not difficult to obtain. Single parents can stay on welfare and go to college. Public housing is also available, although, because of the influx of Somalis, there is now a waiting list. More than a third of the apartments at Hillview, Lewiston’s largest public housing project, are occupied by Somalis, many of them single mothers with large broods of children. The fathers are unaccounted for or still in Georgia or Africa. Those who are unable to obtain public housing are eligible for Section 8 vouchers, which the federal government provides to subsidize rental of private housing.
When Renee Bernier, the president of the Lewiston city council, offered to hire 30 Somalis at $8 an hour to hold warning signs at road construction sites, few showed any interest. Those who did wanted to work no more than a half-day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
I agree wth you.
News media still carry enormous credibility with most people, even though it is entirely undeserved at this point. Consider the media foul-ups that show up on YouTube every month. They are only funny to people who think that media are among the elite, and a lot of people watch them.
Every time someone travels through an airport he sees CNN broadcasting at the gate. And many people who don’t watch TV get email news headlines from a national newspaper or their local one.
The newsmedia are a huge problem. They lie, and present the same lie again and again, on station after station. Over a very short time it becomes common knowledge.
And if they ignore something, then in the pool at consciousness it is as though it never happened.
Who cares. They only want to force Sharia law on the people of US. Islam is an evil idealogy and an anethma to the US Constitution!
That is exactly the point. They are not offended, because the violence is integral to Islam.
I was running an operation in Lewiston when they “arrived.” Let’s say they did not add to the culture of the area.
Thought i was the only one awake as i work overnight :)
you’re probably just getting up.
you are ONE HUNDRED percent correct, and more than i thought, fully 66 percent of americans get their news STILL from the network news.
We can lie about it here or we can run a thread on figuring how to fight back.
Donate to trump, anything, so he can hit back with commercials, hit Twitter and social media where we have a fighting chance, push Trump to let Rudy and Christie go nuts on the alphabet news stations, and anything else we can do.
And we need to SLAM our republican reps regarding this BS of supporting hillary or running a mormon or letting this libertarian ##### into the debates.
FIGHT BACK SOMEBODY!!!!
Yep I researched into that a while ago, and it is the truth and no I am not white, not that it matters, anyone, white, black, muslim, etc.., when they come to the U.S. and they are not a Citizen no, I repeat no government welfare needs to go to foreigners, only charity, it is not fair to the taxpayers but also to the ones that really need it.
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