Posted on 04/21/2022 5:58:41 AM PDT by SJackson
The alien invasion across America’s porous southern border has turned every state into a border state – and every Fake News editor into an agent and a cheerleader for a foreign occupation army.
Here in Maine, 2400 miles northeast of the Texas border, we are the final destination for thousands of illegal immigrants who are being resettled here at taxpayer expense, to the applause of all the really smart people in both political parties.
When I attempted a few weeks ago to push back against a fellow Republican’s praise for the invasion and the invaders, I was confronted once again by the cowardice and ignorance that are the rule rather than the exception in Maine’s lamestream newsrooms.
My dealings with the imbeciles who work in these propaganda mills often remind me of the cheering that erupts at Trump rallies when The Donald derides the Fake News media as the enemies of the American people.
Trump’s characterization fits the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Maine, and its editorial page editor Ben Bragdon, to a tee. In fact, Ben’s loathing for his native country is so deep-seated he’s convinced himself that the burst of inflation we’re experiencing is the result of TOO FEW immigrants coming to America.
Bragdon flat-out refused to publish my op-ed about the alien invasion, and falsely accused me of making many previous “bigoted and untruthful remarks about immigrants.”
To top it off, the lame excuse he invoked for banning me from the op-ed page was a political cartoon created by my brother John Lockman that I published at my website.
Expedited work permits for asylum seekers won’t fix immigration crisis
At the risk of being instantly labeled a hard-hearted xenophobe, I have to dissent from the chorus of voices calling for a relaxation of the work rules that govern the many hundreds of asylum seekers who have settled in Maine during the past few years.
With all due respect to Shawn Moody for his entrepreneurial spirit and decades-long record as a job creator, his March 31st op-ed column touting more federal legislation as a possible solution to Maine’s workforce shortage not only misses the mark, it muddies the water.
Maine certainly has a workforce problem, but it pales in comparison to Maine’s immigration crisis.
And make no mistake, it is a crisis.
It was three years ago this summer when an estimated 500 foreign nationals, most of them from central Africa, crossed the southern border in Texas and boarded buses for Portland, where they were housed at the Portland Expo while state and local officials scrambled to find permanent housing for these asylum-seeking “new Mainers.”
Over the past year, another 1,000+ non-citizen newcomers have made their way from the southern border to Portland, overwhelming the city’s homeless shelters. Many are being housed at taxpayer expense in hotels across Cumberland and York Counties. One hotel in South Portland houses more than 400 non-citizens, half of them children, many of whom are now enrolled in local public schools.
Moody supports legislation introduced by Senators Susan Collins and Angus King that would make asylum seekers eligible for work permits starting 30 days after filing their asylum claims.
As Sen. Collins noted: “Under current law, asylum seekers must wait extended periods of time after filing their applications before they are allowed to apply for work permits. These long waiting periods were originally adopted by the Clinton administration – and then extended to a full year by the Trump administration – out of concern that some migrants might apply for asylum primarily as a means of getting a work authorization.”
Exactly.
Asylee status was never intended as a fast track to getting a job in the United States while your application is pending. Statistics from the US Department of Justice indicate that out of every 100 aliens who claimed a credible fear of persecution between 2008 and 2019, only 14 were granted asylum.
Given that history, the waiting period for work permits made perfect sense under the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. And it makes even more sense today under the Biden administration, with tens of thousands of non-citizens entering the country every month across America’s wide-open southern border.
Moody, to his credit, wants to match the newcomers to available jobs and job-training. But even if large numbers of the so-called “new Mainers” went to work tomorrow for good wages, where are they going to live?
Maine currently has 25,000 households on its joint Section 8 waitlist for subsidized housing that covers most of the state. Many of these families wait years for needed assistance. In addition, more than 11,000 seniors are on Avesta Housing’s waitlist for senior housing projects across the state.
Anyone who’s paying attention knows that Maine has a monumental shortage of affordable housing. So why would we want to encourage poor people who aren’t citizens – and most likely entered the country illegally – to settle here by making it easier for them to take entry-level jobs?
And what happens if, after several years, their pending asylum applications are among the 86% that are not granted? Even if a mere 50% of them turn out to be ineligible for asylee status, does anyone seriously believe they will voluntarily self-deport?
The inconvenient truth is that Maine people cannot afford to provide housing, health care, and education for wave after wave of non-citizen newcomers, whether they came here legally, or as many have done, waded across the Rio Grande and filed a defensive asylum application before getting on a bus to Portland.
Mainers have no legal or moral obligation to facilitate the invasion across our southern border. So let’s not pretend that we do.
WHO IS MAKING these ARRANGEMENTS?
WHO IS PAYING THE BUSES?
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Note to voters in Maine: There’s a reason why your state has both RCV and RCV-enabled voting machines.
Get rid of both or you don’t stand a chance against Deep State.
Every Bush League Republican that fought Trump building the fence is responsible for this.
For 30 years they have kept the border open and the laws unenforced.
EVERY one of them KNOWS they are importing a permanent Democrat majority.
The only ones who don’t are the people re-electing them.
STOP RE-ELECTING ASSISTANT DEMOCRATS AND AMNESTY SENATORS
Well, duh!
The last I looked, Maine has always been a "border state" - along with Washington State, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, etc.
Regards,
>>WHO IS MAKING these ARRANGEMENTS?
>>WHO IS PAYING THE BUSES?
>>FOLLOW THE MONEY
Yes, follow the money right to the catholic church who receives billions of dollars to facilitate this, destroying low and middle class Americans and lining the pockets of the pope and the Vatican. Guess they need the money to keep all those pedophiles on the payroll.
Collins, you elected her you got her. Enjoy.
When did America decide to become a refugee camp for freeloading cowards who are too chickensh*t to stand up for their own country. America! The Septic Tank To The World. No Longer The Home of the Brave. We’re a nation of cowards!!! And you can take that to the bank.
“The inconvenient truth is that Maine people cannot afford to provide housing, health care, and education for wave after wave of non-citizen newcomers”
Neither can Texas nor any other State.
Exactly.
People just don’t see it because we are inside the process - we have morphed from nation, to empire.
For the people who run America, their borders are Ukraine, Syria, Somalia, etc...
Rome considered its borders to be on the Rhine and in the Scottish highlands. Not in Perusia or Messana (in what is now Italy). Same thing now.
Good. Americans aren’t very attentive, and certainly not very bright. The American public will not react until the border problem affects them directly. Until then, the tv hasn’t told them it’s a problem, so it isn’t.
I lived in ME for a couple of years. The Lewiston/Auburn area was the home of one of the first big bunches of Somali refugees.
I could not wait to get out of that area.
The northern part of Maine is beautiful. The southern part is just Mass North.
Scribbling and talk are a waste of time.
They’re positively going to love the winters and the skeeters. I predict they will be boarding southbound busses a year from now. I love Maine, but there’s a reason the state is sometimes referred as “Preview of the Apocalypse”.
Send them to deep-blue Fairfax County, VA--the woke progressives there will welcome them with open arms and as the wealthiest they can afford to support a couple of million of the most needy.
You get what you vote for.. or in today’s environment whatever the voting machines switch the vote too or ballot stuffing results.
The state slogan for Maine was: “The way life should be”. I remember Maine in the 50s as the way life should be. But no longer. Maine was ideal, at one time, and so the America haters went to work destroying Maine. They knew the most efficient way was to bring in people from outside Maine, and they didn’t mean Canadians. They meant people with a culture that was way different. This seems to be succeeding. The Great Replacement is in full swing.
They ruined New Hampshire too.
Shouldn’t we euthanize these useless invaders, after we have executed their traitorous enablers?
“The last I looked, Maine has always been a “border state” - along with Washington State, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, etc.”
Pop Quiz!
Which border state (excluding Alaska just the contiguous 48, please) is the furthest north?
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