Exactly. Why Maine, I sure don't know. This started some time ago, I understand.
Historically, once these populations are established in a place they find desirable, that is, one with excellent benefits, in particluar, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, a massive influx of additional refugees follows, consequent to refugee networking. In other small American communities, it has not mattered to these people that jobs do not exist; they arrive anyway, as long as the benefits are available.
Further, once this influx begins, it has been impossible for other small American communities to stop the flow.
It is the Maine taxpayer who will bear most of the rising costs of providing additional public services, welfare, medicaid/medicare, food, teachers, classrooms, interpreters, special education and so on.
Considering these circumstances and also that these people produce more children than the average American family, it is highly probable that within less than a decade the fabric of society in Lewiston, Maine, will be radically transformed in ways many of us would consider perilous to native well-being.
It seems to me that we as citizens of Maine have a right to ask questions and demand answers of our public administrators, state legislature, and state government with respect to this seemingly imprudent refugee policy without being called unchristian, racist, or xenophobic.
Risa