Reported by The Maine Wire, the proposal comes after a statement by Harison Deah, the director of general assistance, who runs the city’s welfare program, said that “90 to 95 percent” of welfare recipients are migrants – or “New Mainers,” as they were referred to as.
During that initial April 9th city council meeting, Deah added that ‘his office has to teach the immigrants living in apartments with the help of taxpayer-funded general assistance how to do basic things to avoid angering tenants and neighbors, such as how to use a thermostat,’ the Maine Wire reported. He claims the average client is on general assistance for a year and a half to two years.
Jennie Franceschi, Westbrook Director of Planning and Code Enforcement, said in a comment: “What we can afford in this ordinance are shelters in single family homes which are deemed to be emergency shelter families. A church that has a room that they utilize for the purposes of baked bean suppers or educational or social needs could then take that room and make it into a shelter if the needs of the community necessitated it.”
Franceschi would later tell Newsweek in a statement that this law would allow ‘single- or two-family homes to be licensed as emergency shelters. It also would allow a private civic organization like a church to license a community room within the building as an emergency shelter space.’
We are unsure where the conclusion was drawn that Westbrook residents who are GA clients are the driver of the emergency shelter ordinance. In addition, it is harmful to disparage Westbrook residents experiencing need who legally qualify for this mandated state program by questioning their legally protected status in this country.
All GA applicants must prove that they fall subject to a legally protected status. Westbrook is a welcoming and inclusive community. We value all our residents, asylum seekers included…. This complex matter deserves a thoughtful approach. Our goal in drafting this language is to take at least one step forward to eliminate barriers that prevent private agencies from serving Westbrook residents in need.
She added in her statement
The paper reported: ‘During a May 7th Planning Board meeting, multiple members of the public appeared to speak in favor of the new ordinance, arguing that it will help the city to deal better with the skyrocketing rate of homelessness in Cumberland County, of which Westbrook is a part.’
Some were, however, concerned about the tax burden this would raise. Citizen Martin Malia wrote in email that was read during the hearings: “I do not believe the entire homeless shelter proposal is beneficial to the property taxpayers and residents of the city of Westbrook. Last year, the property taxpayers were burdened with an 8.8 [percent] tax increase.”
I believe the city, state, and federal resources should focus on finding affordable housing solutions rather than wasting tax dollars warehousing people.
Malia said, adding that the current proposal would hike property taxes by 11.4 percent, also pointing out issues with California’s immigration problems and how this ordinance would be replicating their issue.
Regardless of these concerns, ‘the planning board did not address any of the concerns expressed by Malia. Despite failing to address the tax burden imposed by the new shelters, the Planning Board voted unanimously to send the new ordinance, as well as an ordinance creating a licensing process for homeless shelters, to the city council for consideration.’
The Maine Wire also noted:
The general assistance program poses a significant tax burden on Westbrook residents, with statewide taxpayer money used to pay for 70 percent of the assistance, and local residents paying 30 percent directly through property tax.
With the extremely high percentage of immigrants applying for general assistance, it is likely that many families housed in the newly proposed homeless shelters inside homes and churches, would be in the country illegally.
How is this all not an immigration resettlement program being funded by taxpayers under the guise of fighting homelessness.
said Malia, in comments provided to The Maine Wire.
Additionally, Newsweek also noted that ‘In January, Democratic Governor Janet Mills announced plans for an Office of New Americans that would be tasked with “making Maine a home of opportunity for all, by welcoming and supporting immigrants to strengthen Maine’s workforce, enhance the vibrancy of Maine’s communities, and build a strong and inclusive economy.”‘
Everywhere you look across Maine, there are help wanted signs. We need workers, and new Americans, who want to support themselves and their families, can be one important part of that solution.
My administration will do what we can to ensure that every person can contribute to our economy and successfully enter and stay in our workforce. As we strengthen our economy by attracting talented people to work in Maine, may this office help us fully harness the contributions of new Americans who have chosen to make our state their home.
Mills said at the time
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Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
This type of absurd nonsense is being proposed and carried out in other states and cities as well. Sure, it’s voluntary today, but how long before it becomes mandated or the illegals gang-up and take these residences and buildings by force?
SEE: New York City Mayor Eric Adams Considers Quartering Illegal Immigrants In ‘Private Residences’
Demented Senator Dick Durbin Introduces Bill To Allow Illegal Immigrants To Serve In Armed Forces
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I guess we’ll soon see how many people in this Maine community are gullible suckers who would be willing to open their homes to these strangers that no one asked for. If it’s anything like what I hear happened in Germany when the same scenario played out around 2015 and 2016, they’ll find themselves locked out of their own homes in a short while. I have every reason to think that these Liberal homeowners will not follow the principle of learning from other peoples’ mistakes.
So what’s the solution for the church? I mean how can we help stop this nonsense.
Be vocal. Take a stand, live by example, pray without ceasing and fast often, and trust the Lord. And only he knows, but perhaps he’s judging that area for a specific reason. I mean, at this point the country is dead and the Lord is allowing all these psychos to make these decisions.
What does proper, biblical immigration look like? There are Godly precedents there. Search them out.
PS I would be very interested in what you find.
How many illegal aliens is DICK FACE Durban taking? ZERO
How many is the governor of Maine taking? ZERO
How many are the planning commission taking: ZERO
How many in the Biden Administration taking? ZERO
These people are so brain dead. They live in an artificial world in their fantasy vision of life, shielded from what the rest of us must do something about whatever that might be since the Globalists carefully over decades programmed weak minded mock humans like the above to accept their horror scenarios as a GOOD thing.
Being all divided, we cannot unify enough to fight back> Hopefully I am dead wrong about this conclusion.