[ozone1]

12,000 more coming on welfare rolls near you.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

coming on welfare rolls near you.

Maybe yes, maybe no. People who have the gumption to emmigrate tend to have the gumption to find some way to earn their keep.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

We are the giant cesspool.

[cp124]

Hello.....Macitosh....Thats another 11,000 laptops for the State of Maine.

[lsee]

I think America's "help" would take a better form and our money would be better spent in creating better circumstances for the Somalis in their OWN country. Tribal warfare has always existed in that nation. Soon there will be another persecuted group...and another. The goal should be local peace, not 'send 'em to the United States'. That just relocates the problem.

[cp124]

The Somali migration to Lewiston has not been without a few incidents of anger, name-calling and fights. One man put a sign on his lawn expressing his displeasure with their presence. That angered Kaileigh Tara, who was mayor when the Somalis first started arriving.

"It blows my mind that they can't connect the dots, that to sit here in their little world and say, 'We don't want these other people here, the rest of the world can take care of itself,' that's why we were attacked on Sept. 11, that's how we get airplanes slamming into buildings," Tara says.

But, in the spirit of the sahan, Abdiaziz Ali figures if the mood sours or if Somalis keep coming and Lewiston, like Portland before it, fills to overflowing, they will simply move on to the next city or town, to Augusta or Bath.

He is not worried. "We can spread out," he says, "anywhere we want."

[FITZ]

after Mozambique, a southern African country, turned down a resettlement request

And why did they????

[SheLion]

Hundreds march in solidarity with Somalis is Lewiston
By Associated Press, 10/13/2002 15:25

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) Hundreds of people joined a peaceful march Sunday to show support for Somalian immigrants in Maine's second-largest city, whose mayor has raised concerns that local services will be strained if many more Somalis arrive.

Police said about 250 people, most of them longer-term residents of the city, participated in a five-block walk from the Calvary United Methodist Church to a mosque where Lewiston's Somalis worship. Some of the participants gave speeches expressing solidarity with the new arrivals at the mosque.

One of two protesters who identified themselves as pro-white held a sign along the march route that said, ''How long will it take before Lewiston is like Somalia?''

Mohammed Abdi, a Somali elder who participated the march, said one of the main messages expressed was that Lewiston will benefit from new diversity in its population with the arrival of the Somalis.

''We are one people, we are one community,'' said Abdi, adding that the United States ''is a country made up of immigrants, and one immigrant group came before another. And the Somalis just happened to come ... now.''

Abdi said the Somalis were outnumbered about 3-1 by longer-term residents of Lewiston in the march.

''I think it will strengthen the community more. It will bring the people closer together. It was a matter of solidarity and a show of unity,'' Abdi said. ''I think it's positive.''

Abdi was one of the local Somali leaders who met with Mayor Larry Raymond on Friday to ease strained feelings following the mayor's released of an open letter in which he warned of a strain on resources if more Somalis move to the city of 36,000.

The letter said Lewiston, which has absorbed more than 1,000 Somalis in 18 months, cannot continue absorbing newcomers ''without negative results for all.''

Somali elders responded by lashing out at Raymond as an ''ill-informed leader'' who should have sought a private meeting with them instead.

Abdi said after Sunday's march that the march, envisioned earlier as ''a get-together with the local people,'' became more urgent after the mayor released his letter.

''We had a little walk planned before the present controversy,'' Mark Schlotterbeck, city missionary for the Calvary United Methodist Church, told the Lewiston Sun Journal before Sunday's event.

''Now lots of people are going to walk: Christians, Muslims, Jews, Unitarians and civil rights teams from local schools.''

Hundreds march in solidarity with Somalis is Lewiston

[Consort]

Soon, massive White Flight will happen in Maine just as it always has in other parts of the US. The new Somalie neighbors will blast their boomboxes, raise and pluck chickens, etc to speed up the exodus, neighborhood by neighborhood. Works every time. "As Maine goes....it's going".

[1234]

"The transfer, which took nearly four months to complete, is aimed to facilitate the process of resettling the(11,800) refugees in the United States

SEND'EM DIRECTLY TO LEWISTON, ME. it's time to test mass acculturation of the librals' 'children' in a 'liberal college town'.

[Lorianne]

http://allafrica.com/stories/200210020316.html

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view...dbb8ddde830627b

NAIROBI --Plans to resettle over 10,000 Somali Bantus – eventually to the United States – from refugee camps in nothern Kenya were in jeopardy after reports that some of the refugees had recently subjected their daughters to female circumcision. The US has agreed to resettle Somali Bantu refugees, but media reports said the authorities had threatened to bar some of the families whose daughters had undergone the procedure.

The INS is considering denial of visas for parents who have recently subjected their daughters to FGM [female genital mutilation]. The INS informs applicants that female circumcision is illegal in the US, thereby prompting many on the waiting list for entry to the USA to hurry up and perform the brutal torture on their daughters before they are relocated.

Perhaps this shows how eager they are to adapt to the customs and laws of the USA?