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Maine's largest city cuts spending in dispute over immigrant aid
Yahoo News ^ | 14 Nov 2014 | Reuters By Dave Sherwood

Posted on 11/13/2014 5:42:53 PM PST by 11th_VA

PORTLAND Maine (Reuters) - Maine's largest city has begun clamping down on spending as newly re-elected Republican Governor Paul LePage makes good on a campaign promise to cut funding to cities and towns that give aid to undocumented immigrants.

In an internal memo released on Wednesday, Portland city officials said they had frozen hiring and cut travel and overtime spending after their requests for reimbursement from the state for assistance provided to families with children in emergencies had gone unanswered since July.

The budget shortfall could grow to as much as $3 million this year, city officials said, a hefty sum that underscores the increasingly local impact of the tense congressional standoff over national immigration reform.

"We just don't have that kind of money sitting around, so we need to act prudently," said city spokeswoman Jessica Grondin. "We're in a holding pattern until we receive some kind of official response."

Tea Party-backed LePage, who was re-elected last week with a strong mandate to reform the state's welfare system, had threatened in June to cut funding to municipalities that give state-reimbursed general assistance to undocumented immigrants.

"Tell your city councilors and selectmen to stop handing out your money to illegals," LePage said in a radio address.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: aliens; bluezones; me2014; portlandme; sanctuarycities; taxandspend
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Go read the comments on yahoo to this - GOP better be listening ...
1 posted on 11/13/2014 5:42:53 PM PST by 11th_VA
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Xlnt


2 posted on 11/13/2014 5:43:59 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: 11th_VA

LePage For President!


3 posted on 11/13/2014 5:46:06 PM PST by Argus
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To: 11th_VA

I love LePage’s laconi comment. “Tell your council members and selectmen to stop giving your money to illegals.”


4 posted on 11/13/2014 5:49:38 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: 11th_VA

And it has begun.

BA


5 posted on 11/13/2014 5:49:51 PM PST by Battle Axe (Repent: for the coming of the Lord is soon.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Laconic and succinct


6 posted on 11/13/2014 5:50:13 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: Argus

I live in Maine and I voted for Paul LePage last week.

The guy is great!


7 posted on 11/13/2014 5:52:00 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Enjoy Barack Obama's Legacy America (EBOLA))
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To: 11th_VA

Best governor in the country. Not a lot of people know about him....he’s the real deal.


8 posted on 11/13/2014 5:53:55 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Love this guy! He, is a Happy Warrior!


9 posted on 11/13/2014 5:54:51 PM PST by acapesket
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To: 11th_VA

Illegals take out and send Home and contribute nothing just like Obama


10 posted on 11/13/2014 5:55:23 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Tell ALL your government officials to stop giving your money to illegals!!!!


11 posted on 11/13/2014 5:55:38 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: 11th_VA

Didn’t Mainers get hundreds of Obama’s illegal alien minors dumped on them this Summer?


12 posted on 11/13/2014 5:56:43 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: 11th_VA

I wish Texas would do this to “sanctuary cities”


13 posted on 11/13/2014 6:05:59 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

About time that someone stood up to the Democrat tax-thieves and told them to cut out this crap, or be fired.

Now, if they could only do something about Portland, Oregon, the Moscow of the West (along with Seattle, San Francisco) and LA).

Maybe nuking from orbit just to be sure. The only way to wipe out the leftists and their plagues.


14 posted on 11/13/2014 6:06:16 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: hoosierham

bump


15 posted on 11/13/2014 6:06:49 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: 11th_VA

Republican Governor Paul LePage is nasty and mean spirited. What gives him the right to tell criminals who entered our country illegally that they have no right to demand taxpayer dollars?


16 posted on 11/13/2014 6:10:30 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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The GOP Country Clubbers and Blue Bloods in DC are calling these ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINAL PARASITES "undocumented immigrants".

This guy Salmon doesn't have the balls to use the term "illegal alien"

LePage has it right. Matt Salmon has it wrong.

Dear Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Lowey,

As the House continues to deliberate and draft appropriations legislation before the current continuing resolution expires on December 12, 2014, we write to encourage you to include language that would prohibit funding for the President’s reported intentions to create work permits and green cards for undocumented immigrants currently in the United States.

There are currently millions of undocumented immigrants living within our borders. Recently, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a procurement request for 34 million work permits and green cards over the next five years.

President Obama has spoken publicly and privately about his intentions to use executive action to create these work permits for those who are here illegally. This would be in direct violation of U.S. law. As you know, the Congress has the power of the purse and should use it as a tool to prevent the President from implementing policies that are contrary to our laws and the desire of the American people.

We respectfully request that as you work to finalize the year-end funding legislation that language be included in all relevant appropriations legislation for FY 2015 to prohibit the use of funds by the administration for the implementation of current or future executive actions that would create additional work permits and green cards outside of the scope prescribed by Congress.

We thank you for your efforts with this legislation and for your consideration of this important request.

Sincerely,

Matt Salmon

17 posted on 11/13/2014 6:11:36 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: 11th_VA

And yet walk into an SSA office and demand SS disability with no paperwork or background to prove it.


18 posted on 11/13/2014 6:19:56 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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To: Pollster1
What gives him the right to tell criminals who entered our country illegally that they have no right to demand taxpayer dollars?

The Constitution. Just sayin'.

19 posted on 11/13/2014 6:22:07 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
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“Tell your city councilors and selectmen to stop handing out your money to illegals,” LePage said in a radio address.”

Wish I could vote for this guy.


20 posted on 11/13/2014 6:35:43 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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