No place is left untouched by the federal government’s refugee resettlement program. The Wall Street Journal published an article today titled Maine’s Largest City Strains Under Asylum-Seeker Influx. (It’s behind a paywall, but you can find an alternative here.) Even lily-white Maine is a target for demographic change.
Asylum seekers, who are primarily from African countries, now make up 90% of the people living in Portland’s city-run family shelter and overflow shelter, where new arrivals sleep on mats. A city fund that assists with necessities is dwindling fast, and pro-bono lawyers are overwhelmed with cases, Mr. MacLean said. …
“We have more cases than we’ve ever had,” she said. “The number of people coming is out of sync with resources.” …
The foreign-born population fueled more than 75% of population growth in Portland and the surrounding area in 2011-16, according to a report co-produced by the city. …
Under Maine law, asylum seekers who have filed an application may qualify for general assistance, for up to 24 months. Funded by the state and municipalities, that program provides vouchers for rent, utilities and other staples.
In Portland, 65% to 70% of the 1,000 people now receiving general assistance are noncitizens, primarily asylum seekers, according to city staff.
In articles like these I see a lot of similar themes: “Ohh, we need the workers, we need the workers. Bring them in!” On one hand they tell us not to have kids, then they’re telling us they need to bring in immigrants because labor is in short supply. And when they do come, they go on welfare. So what’s going on?
The business community loves immigration, because even if they’re not getting cheap labor, they’re at least getting more consumers: groceries, diapers, phones, cars, housing — that’s all spending that these “asylum seekers” bring with them. And sure, all that welfare is a strain on public resources… but who cares? All that free money comes out of the chump taxpayers’ wallets.
Much of the business community in America is selling our nation out for their own personal greed.
Let’s take a drive up I-95 and see how Lewiston is doing these days.
Not very white anymore, it seems:
Wave of immigrants brings ‘richness,’ rapid change to Maine’s classrooms
Data reflect how racial diversity that was initially clustered in bigger cities like Portland and Lewiston is moving into smaller towns and suburbs.
Adams’ class is a typical kindergarten class in Maine, where the lessons are focused on teaching students about colors, numbers, shapes and letters.
But a huge difference is the students themselves: In the whitest state in the nation, 75 percent of the students here at Longley Elementary School are minorities, mostly in families of immigrants who have arrived in Maine within the last 20 years. By contrast, 15 years ago, minorities made up just over 15 percent of the students at Longley.
Recent waves of immigrants coming to Maine have rapidly changed the racial makeup of schools, with huge impacts on state education funding and potentially altering Maine’s economic future. (source)
Do you perceive that a program of “great replacement” is in place?
Substitute teacher Zainab Hussein, center, supervises in the Longley Elementary School cafeteria
Lewiston Blue Devils boys’ soccer team
Snow cancellation notice posted on Lewiston Schools public Twitter