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Portland, Maine asks residents for DONATIONS to house migrants: Fury from locals as local gymnasium is turned into a shelter for border crossers”
Daily Mail ^ | 4/13 2023 | Catalan Caralle

Posted on 04/12/2023 11:00:45 PM PDT by caww

1,000 migrants arrived in Portland, Maine since the beginning of 2023, ..Some residents have expressed discontent with the expo center being used as a shelter for migrants while the city of Portland continues to experience an increasing homelessness problem with its own citizens.

Running the basketball arenas as a shelter for two months in 2019 cost Portland around $400,000 – and, the Portland Press reports, the city raised nearly $1 million in private donations to support the 400 asylum seekers who arrived over the summer that year.

Portland activist Richard Ward told Fox & Friends on Wednesday that the city's priorities are upside down, saying that they are allowing migrants to be housed in the Expo Center before taking care of their own homeless citizens.

While the southern border crisis is exacerbated by weak on immigration policies, states in the northern U.S. have also seen a surge over the border from Canada, which is largely unmanned.

While the numbers at the northern border are far dwarfed by those in the south, it continues to be a weak-point since efforts are focused on addressing the thousands of migrants that cross over the southern border every day.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Maine; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; canadianborder; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; donations; globalism; invasion; maine; northernborder; somali; terroristfunding
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1 posted on 04/12/2023 11:00:45 PM PDT by caww
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2 posted on 04/12/2023 11:01:21 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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3 posted on 04/12/2023 11:04:12 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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BTTT


4 posted on 04/12/2023 11:04:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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I will donate for plane tickets back home.


5 posted on 04/12/2023 11:04:29 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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6 posted on 04/12/2023 11:10:16 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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So are they checked medically before being housed? African nations have all sorts of disease and internal parasites.


7 posted on 04/12/2023 11:12:24 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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I don’t think they’ll take you up on that offer.


8 posted on 04/12/2023 11:13:23 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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“I will donate for plane tickets back home.”

I’d rather send the Democrats that welcome them
to Africa, and keep people that really want
to be here and integrate.


9 posted on 04/12/2023 11:14:20 PM PDT by rellic
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10 posted on 04/12/2023 11:16:49 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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Portland, Maine asks residents for DONATIONS to house migrants…

After they ask me for money, I would ask if it’s hard to breathe when their heads are up and locked?

11 posted on 04/12/2023 11:33:27 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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What are the people supposedly fleeing from in Angola and the Congo?


12 posted on 04/12/2023 11:46:53 PM PDT by KittyKares
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So Maine wants to become another Minnesota?


13 posted on 04/12/2023 11:49:41 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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Photo caption....

Movin’ On Up
Song by Ja’Net DuBois (The Jeffersons Theme Song)

Well we’re movin’ on up
To the east side
To a deluxe apartment in the sky

Movin’ on up
To the east side
We finally got a piece of the pie

Fish don’t fry in the kitchen
Beans don’t burn on the grill

Took a whole lotta tryin’
Just to get up that hill

Now we’re up in the big leagues
Gettin’ our turn at bat

As long as we live, it’s you and me baby
There ain’t nothin’ wrong with that.


14 posted on 04/13/2023 12:05:18 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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“What are the people supposedly fleeing from in Angola and the Congo?”

How do they end up in Maine? I hope no NGOs that receive funding or tax breaks from the U.S taxpayer facilitated this migration.


15 posted on 04/13/2023 12:05:38 AM PDT by Prolixus (In all seriousness:)
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Uhhhhhhhh.....

Next question.


16 posted on 04/13/2023 12:07:09 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Photo caption...

(Over loudspeaker)
And so, in brief, if you stay out of the cities like New York, Chicago and Detroit, and if you don’t step on syringes , feces or fentanyl packets on the sidewalks in San Francisco, and you don’t try to pray in any church when an arsonist comes in to set it on fire or start shooting, you may be reasonably safe in the United States.


17 posted on 04/13/2023 12:11:54 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Back to Africa please


18 posted on 04/13/2023 12:20:42 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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notice that they never send them to places with large black populations....just to the lily white areas....deliberate...


19 posted on 04/13/2023 12:30:25 AM PDT by cherry
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This is why they come here....

as of March 2023:

Overview of immigrant eligibility for the major federal public assistance programs:.

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Emergency Medicaid (includes labor and delivery)
Full-Scope Medicaid
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Medicare “Premium-Free” Part A (hospitalization) (Eligibility based on work history.)
Premium “Buy-in” Medicare
HUD Public Housing and Section 8 Programs
Title XX Block Grants
Social Security
Other Federal Public Benefits Subject to Welfare Law’s Restrictions
Benefits Exempt from Welfare Law’s Restrictions


20 posted on 04/13/2023 1:00:53 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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