Anonymous
ID: kdQjUiNm
8/5/2025, 11:42:35 PM No.512323309
In my state, welfare been totally repurposed for asylum seekers. 95% of general assistance (GA) recipients in Portland are asylum seekers who arrived in the last 3 years. GA spending is now routinely $20-30 million, and we've raised taxes every year to fund increased payouts to asylum seekers. GA pays $1300/month in rent for single individuals. Working citizens are supposed to compete for low income housing when thousands of people show up every year whom the city/state will basically automatically grant $1300+ in rental assistance/month.
Migrrants must spend 30-50k to make the journey here, and yet are somehow penniless and helpless. The immigration to Portland is predicated specifically on GA, and migrants come here with specific instructions on how to apply and what to expect.
Just some of the crazy amounts have spent: for the last transitional housing program utilizing hotels in Saco/South Portland, $19 million was spent on 192 families at the Saco hotel, which is $98,958/family and $4million/84 families at the South Portland Hotel, or $47,619/family. Total cash equivalent assistance per asylum seeker, when you factor in transitional housing, GA rent + food, and transportation, is double the median income of the state (median: $35k) (and that's not even counting medicaid costs).
And how did they get here?
The majority of "refugees" are being "resettled" by "Catholic" Charities Maine, but also by Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services and the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. They are the whole reason migrants come to Maine and and receive government funds to live in apartments and buy cars. Catholic Charities admits there is little to no housing available nor being built but they don't care. Let me repeat that: The catholic charity that does this acknowledges there is no housing for them here, but they get paid to send refugees into Maine? That’s literally a human trafficking business. The top executives have been making some pretty cash.
Migrrants must spend 30-50k to make the journey here, and yet are somehow penniless and helpless. The immigration to Portland is predicated specifically on GA, and migrants come here with specific instructions on how to apply and what to expect.
Just some of the crazy amounts have spent: for the last transitional housing program utilizing hotels in Saco/South Portland, $19 million was spent on 192 families at the Saco hotel, which is $98,958/family and $4million/84 families at the South Portland Hotel, or $47,619/family. Total cash equivalent assistance per asylum seeker, when you factor in transitional housing, GA rent + food, and transportation, is double the median income of the state (median: $35k) (and that's not even counting medicaid costs).
And how did they get here?
The majority of "refugees" are being "resettled" by "Catholic" Charities Maine, but also by Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services and the Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. They are the whole reason migrants come to Maine and and receive government funds to live in apartments and buy cars. Catholic Charities admits there is little to no housing available nor being built but they don't care. Let me repeat that: The catholic charity that does this acknowledges there is no housing for them here, but they get paid to send refugees into Maine? That’s literally a human trafficking business. The top executives have been making some pretty cash.
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