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  • Not Enough Food, No Showers: Migrants Protest Outside Portland ME Expo Over “Awful Conditions,” Uncertain Future Benefits

    06/28/2023 9:55:42 AM PDT · by cp124 · 72 replies
    The Maine Wire ^ | 6/28/2023 | EDWARD TOMIC
    Roughly 100 migrants protested outside of the Portland Exposition Building Wednesday morning, briefly blocking traffic along a busy Park Ave, to raise alarm about the “awful conditions” inside the shelter, with one man telling the Maine Wire that there was not enough food and limited ability to shower. The migrants also complained about the uncertain future they face when taxpayer-funded benefits paying for their accommodations run out later this year. “We have children here, but the life is not very good,” said Reagan Mayemba, a migrant staying at the Portland Expo. Mayemba said that they will be “kicked out” in...