Maine’s Democrat governor just created an office to help import 75,000 poor migrants during the next ten years.
Portland “has an acute housing shortage and rising prices, heightening the challenge of finding places for newcomers to live,” thein April. “The pressure right now on emergency shelter is so incredible,” Portland’s pro-migration mayor, Kate Snyder, told the newspaper., including school resources from Maine’s children:
The migrants divert much taxpayer wealth to local merchants and real-estate owners, but they are not educated for productive work in the U.S. economy. In July 2022, theYet the city that has been one of the most benevolent in America toward outsiders now finds itself with 1,200 newcomers, most from Africa and the Caribbean. They have come to Portland because they heard it had received fellow travelers humanely. Most speak no English; they have no money, no relatives or friends to house them.
“We need to aggressively expand our workforce by 2030, and there’s no better way to do that than by harnessing the skills, experience, and education of foreign-born professionals,” said a statement from Quincy Hentzel, president of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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