{"id":190677,"date":"2019-06-28T07:26:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T07:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190677"},"modified":"2019-07-01T07:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T07:56:54","slug":"and-the-maine-problem-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190677","title":{"rendered":"And the Maine problem is \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish Savant \u2013 June 25, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Portland, Maine. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

From\u00a0USA Today<\/a><\/span>\u00a0“From Alabama to Wyoming: Here is the best and worst thing about every state”<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n
This is how they rate Maine:<\/h5>\n
Best: Lowest violent crime rate<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Maine ranks as the safest\u00a0state in the country, as there were just 124 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 residents — less than a third of the national rate.<\/h5>\n
Worst: Least diverse<\/strong><\/h5>\n
According to the latest Census data, 94.4 percent of Maine’s population is white, beating out nearby Vermont and New Hampshire as the least diverse states.<\/h5>\n
But wait, according to the New York Slimes<\/a><\/em><\/span> help could be on the way.<\/h5>\n
‘PORTLAND, Me. \u2014 \u2026 This month, 250 migrants from Africa arrived in this northeastern city of roughly 67,000 residents in the span of just a week, overflowing the overflow space and forcing Portland to hastily convert a basketball arena into an emergency shelter. Urgent calls went out for interpreters who could speak French, Portuguese and Lingala, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. City Council meetings were given over to grappling with how Portland would pay for all of this \u2014 and the possibility that still more migrants might be coming. the sheer numbers \u2014 and the suddenness of the latest arrivals \u2014 have opened up a debate about how much Portland should be doing to help immigrants and whether it should entice more of them to come. “If we have discovered the magic wand that will bring young families to Portland to help us build the next generation, why would we want to stop that, especially when it costs us so little money?\u201d\u00a0 Portland\u2019s mayor\u00a0Ethan Strimling\u00a0said.’<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n

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Maybe Vincent Mbala from the Congo, who\u00a0came to Maine with his wife and three children,\u00a0can help in identifying this magic wand.
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\n‘He\u00a0said that he learned through internet research that Maine provided financial support for asylum seekers. Maine is unusual in providing general assistance, for up to two years, to immigrants who have valid visas or who have applied for asylum. \u2026 Portland also has what local officials believe is the only municipal fund in the country that provides support to asylum seekers before they submit their applications.’<\/em><\/h5>\n
Now with my crystal ball in hand let me provide that rag with an update for 2030.<\/h5>\n
Best: Most diverse<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Maine has become one of America’s most diverse states,\u00a0a beautiful mosaic of different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different dreams, united by their passionate belief in democracy, freedom, and the American Way Of Life.<\/h5>\n
Worst: Spiralling crime\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The citizens of Maine endure some of the nation’s highest rates of murder, violent assault, rape, robbery and inter-communal violence. Sociologists and political scientists are baffled by these developments as less than a decade ago Maine was the safest place in the country.<\/h5>\n
Folks, these days the jokes just write themselves.<\/h5>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irish Savant looks into his crystal ball to see what the future holds for Maine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190684,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190677\/revisions\/190684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}