Somali Muslims in Maine ......unassimilated.....and loaded with bag of tax-paid freebies.
Posted on 02/01/2019 11:38:44 AM PST by Steven Scharf
Conservative critics target Portland and its support of asylum seekers
Portland's mayor and city councilors fire back after a Fox Broadcasting Co. talk show host says the city has itself to blame for a surge in immigrants who need shelter.
BY RANDY BILLINGS STAFF WRITER Portland Press Herald Friday, February 1, 2019
Portland may be more than 2,000 miles from the southern U.S. border, but the city found itself in the middle of national immigration debate this week.
Conservative commentators such as Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Laura Ingraham and Stuart Varney seized on a story published Jan. 27 by the Wall Street Journal about how people escaping persecution and violence in Central Africa are coming to Maine’s largest city to seek asylum. The Journal’s story came month after the Maine Sunday Telegram reported on the trend, including one family’s arduous escape from Angola.
Former Gov. Paul LePage appeared on Ingraham’s show on Wednesday and repeated claims he often made during his two terms as governor. LePage said that providing government aid to non-citizens comes at the expense of the elderly and disabled. “People who have lived their lives in Maine are now without services in the aging years or with their disabilities,” LePage said.
Portland has long been a destination for people in need because of the city’s social services and economic opportunities. A city-run shelter for single adults regularly exceeds its 154-person capacity, so officials are looking at increasing its capacity. On a recent night, 257 people sought emergency shelter.
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Two of our mayoral candidates are using the appearance to gin up campaign contributions.
"While Ingraham expressed shock that the state’s population growth has been attributed to immigration,"
The state's population growth over the last ten years has been less than 5%, with equal amounts attributable to both domestic and foreign migration. We are also losing people to low tax states and deaths over births. I fear in the next couple of years that our population will begin a negative decline like those experienced by others northern states.
Tell me, why do you believe negative decline to be an absolute bad? why must populations always rise?
The true answer will tell you why leftists and globalists are forcing culture-change and immigration on places like Portland.
Where in central africa are they coming from? What persecution are they fleeing?
Simple reason, the less people here, the more I have to pay in taxes to support those who don’t support themselves (and I am not talking just about immigrant populations, Maine does quite well in creating its own welfare state among the white people here).
The depopulation of Maine is happening in Northern and Eastern Maine and will leave a vast area of unsupportable land. York and Cumberland County are doing just fine. It is the rest of the state that will soon feel the affects of depopulation.
Give the state back to Canada. Free health care.
Somali Muslims in Maine ......unassimilated.....and loaded with bag of tax-paid freebies.
Learn your history troll, we were never part of Canada. We were part of Massachusetts, but their current invasion of high wealth retires is actually one of bright spots.
Oregon used to be a sleepy backwater known for vast forests, beautiful coastlines, scenic views of the Cascade range, and Weyerhaeuser, who put all those trees to good use. Now it’s known for it’s urban dumps, mainly Portland that smell of stale urine and pot smoke.
Populations rise and fall for many reasons - disease, war, climate, migration, economics.
Population is declining in Maine because of taxes, oppressive and expensive government, abortion, economic stagnation, and progressive hate of Maine/white culture.
forced immigration is a short term government plan to keep the welfare state and funding alive and dilute the native population and keep then pliant
You should focus on the real problems. Not merely “depopulation.”
A negative decline is the very worst time of decline you could possibly have. Any other type of decline would be better.
Worst kind, not worst time.
When I first moved to Maine in 70 there were thousands of abandoned homes in rural areas, and entire abandoned towns. Central Maine and Western Maine were ghost towns. Bought first home here for 3K on 3acres. Those were 1920s prices.
Portland is a perfect example of what happens when a city has uncontrolled and illegal immigration —— Have fun guys and don’t complain when you are over your heads in debt AND have an abundance of communicable diseases that were in recent times almost rare.
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