Mia Ntahobari of Portland, an immigrant from Burundi, says those seeking asylum come here because they fear for their lives, not because they want a handout.
Posted on 06/13/2014 6:44:52 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
The LePage administration’s plan to stop funding General Assistance benefits for undocumented immigrants has many immigrant families worried that they will lose their apartments and that their children will go hungry, say leaders in the immigrant community in Greater Portland.
“People will have nothing to feed their kids,” said Mia Ntahobari, 43, of Portland, who leads the Burundian Women’s Commission. “They just don’t know what to do.”Ntahobari discussed the rule change Thursday at the monthly meeting of the Maine Immigrant Women’s Network, which drew 20 women from almost every immigrant group in the city.
Many were surprised to hear about the rule change announced Wednesday by the state Department of Health and Human Services. Just two weeks earlier, they had celebrated Attorney General Janet Mills’ finding that Gov. Paul LePage’s plan to exclude asylum-seekers from General Assistance aid was unconstitutional.
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Meaning people who are here illegally.
“Mia Ntahobari, 43, of Portland, who leads the Burundian Women’s Commission”
The Burundian Women’s Commission? WTF?
This governor is one of the few in the GOP working for us.
Whaaaaaa, whatever should they dooooooo? How about going back where they came from and start the LEGAL citizenship process.
Mia Ntahobari of Portland, an immigrant from Burundi, says those seeking asylum come here because they fear for their lives, not because they want a handout.
Without the program, which provides vouchers for rent and food and medicine, families will have nothing, said Ridelphine Katabesha, 28, who immigrated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and now lives in Gorham. “People are confused and afraid.”
The rule change applies to immigrants who do not have documents. That includes people who entered the United States illegally, and people who came here on valid visas that have since expired.
Without the program, which provides vouchers for rent and food and medicine, families will have nothing, said Ridelphine Katabesha, 28, who immigrated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and now lives in Gorham. “People are confused and afraid.”
The rule change applies to immigrants who do not have documents. That includes people who entered the United States illegally, and people who came here on valid visas that have since expired.
Doesn’t Greyhound sell one way tickets to Boston or Minneapolis?
Guess they’ll just have to go somewhere else.
May I suggest Blue states....especially in liberal’s backyards.
Someplace on the coast or close to a border.
GO HOME, that’s what you do!
“Mia Ntahobari of Portland, an immigrant from Burundi, says those seeking asylum come here because they fear for their lives, not because they want a handout.”
So Tell me where do you work? I’m sure you work full time in some high paying profession!!!! /S/
Arrest all illegals, seize their assets and deport them. What a bunch of illegal alien bums!
Did they really think they could sponge off the US taxpayer for the rest of their lives? The road they got here on also goes back home. They are entitled to nothing, but we will donate a ticket home.
Notice they can’t feed themselves, but they can get their nails done.
Then they should work their a$$’s off in gratitude for their rescue, to show their benefactors their appreciation.
They should petition their own Government. Get out!
Start by selling OUR Gold that you bought with OUR tax money!
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
The sea voyage was “a rough trip, and they did not like it,” says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.
What do we do now? Free Food, Free Rent, Free whatever they want. No wonder they keep coming, just what is going to stop them?
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