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I was in the Portland airport a few months ago and there was this Somali mother with her baby waiting to board a plane to DC.........it seemed so out place being in Maine, she was there with some relatives, all dressed strangely (for Maine standards that is). Never figured it out until hearing about this community in the papers. Bend over taxpayers (again)! And if you disagree it's off to the diversity gulag for you...........

Some social services are more readily available in Maine, where cities and towns offer public assistance along with state and federal agencies. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which provides about $125 per month per family member, is available for five years in Maine, but for only four years in Georgia. And Maine provides medical care for children of needy families, while Georgia does not.

Many of the Somalis moving to Lewiston are single mothers with children. Some officials wonder if some Somalis are moving to Maine so they can collect another year of family assistance. Other officials worry that some Somali men are sending their wives and children to Maine to collect welfare, claiming they are separated or divorced, while their husbands continue to live and work in Clarkston. The concern is great enough that Ronald Munia, a program specialist with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, recently warned Somalis when he was a guest on a Clarkston radio show that welfare fraud is a crime that could cause them to be deported from the country.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/020630somalis.shtml