DonWichita Kansas
01/30/19 5:05 am
Sanctuary cities & states ask for it... Load em up, but use your own dime and not mine. Don't expect a bail-out when your citizens are broke.
Feels good on the tongue, but the reality is that the sanctuaries cost us all.
Sanctuary cities & States must be penalized.
badattitude no place like home
01/29/19 6:27 pm
U.S.
Maine’s Largest City Strains Under Asylum-Seeker Influx
Portland, long welcoming to immigrants, is running out of shelter space, funds
PORTLAND, Maine—This community has long offered a generous hand to immigrants.
But Maine’s largest city, population about 67,000, is now struggling with an influx of asylum seekers, to the point where a local official is alerting shelters in other parts of the country to discourage people from heading here.
“The word is out there that our community is open to that population and has some assistance programs,” said David MacLean, administrator of Portland’s Social Services Division. “Our local resources are not able to keep up.”
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.
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