There’s nothing in Maine’s constitution that directly addresses public education, let alone the idea that public money is to be used to import a new voting bloc.
The laws of Maine have certainly been changed to accommodate this massive , artificial trafficking of people into the state. As our superintendent stated, Lewiston public school accepts all students.
Obviously the Federal government sets national immigration policy, or fails to enforce it at all like the last administration.
Most of the funding for this seems to flow through NGOs, although plenty is doled out directly by the state and municipal governments.
Derp. I was wrong. I should have been more specific.
The idea I am trying to get across is that nobody campaigned on the level of demographic transformation we experienced, let alone the idea that the entire thing should be paid for by tax dollars.
There’s 1.3 million people in Maine, and 8 billion or so people who don’t live here. The current legal framework is built on the idea that we have an unlimited capacity to import state dependents from distant lands.
In summary, public education being a municipal responsibility in Maine doesn’t mean that anyone in the planet has a constitutional right to be educated in Lewiston, let alone receive housing, food, utilities, a new car, health care, etc., all paid for by taxpayers.
Now that I’m back at a keyboard with more attention, this is accurate in a general sense, but it isn’t accurate to state that it is everyone on the planet’s constitutional right to have all of their needs met by the people of Maine, including public education, as long as they can cross into Maine’s borders.
The legal framework we currently have does indeed make it a de facto right, because Maine eliminated residency requirements for public assistance, and I don’t think it was ever explicitly tied to US citizenship. This has allowed not just migrants from other countries, but migrants from within the US to move here to take advantage of Maine’s generous benefits. It also explains why we didn’t have a massive influx of needy people from distant lands 20 years ago and prior, but normal migration of people who self-selected to move to Maine to carve out a life for themselves, retire, etc.
This unbelievable flow of people was made possible primarily by Democrat policy at the state and federal level. Local level politics doesn’t have the same sort of impact. The majority of the benefits flow to migrants through NGO’s which are awarded grants by the state and the feds, with some private money mixed in as well from Soros types and regular donors.
If we use datarepublican’s tool for just one of these nonprofits, the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, we see that there are 20 separate nonprofits involved in this funding web, resulting in nearly $2,000,000 of tax dollars flowing to this one local NGO, and there area LOT of NGO’s involved.
All of these layers have allowed politicians to pretend that the human trafficking wasn’t simply being tax funded, usually by being deceptive in the same way that NPR/PBS are about their funding.
How many more illegals can we expect Trump to make carve outs for coming up?
His new rule seems to be illegals that have been here for a long time and have basically just been here working and not causing problems get to stay.
Did a libtard get trumps ear ? Or is he succumbing to the deep state? Corrupted by Big Ag? Or maybe it’s because his own hotels are suffering??
Why are some illegals that have been here working for a long time okay and others aren’t? Surely the same exact reasoning applies to any market that employs illegals does it not?
It’s almost like there’s a nuanced discussion to be had and the trump sledgehammer approach is once again proving to be the wrong way to execute the plan, as evidenced by the fact trump is now changing course on it.
And isn’t it illegal to hire illegals? So he’s talking with farmers who are admitting to breaking the law and his solution is to just let them keep breaking the law and let their illegal workers stay here against the law?
Republicans have a long history of liking cheap migrant agricultural labor. Growing up in Indiana, I can assure you that migrant Mexicans were an important part of the economy in the exact same way that slaves were in the south, but they also sold the local rural gringo kids difficult-to acquire pot, typically with lots of seeds.
Neither migrants nor slaves are no cost labor, but both are very cheap labor. The cheapest possible, except for perhaps child labor, which is still a thing in most agricultural societies. Armies of 12 and 13 year olds were mobilized to de-tassle corn for $3.17 an hour in the early 90’s. I’m not sure of the situation now, but I doubt it has changed much.
I’m a bit split on this because all-out deportation probably does pose an acute threat to our food supply, which is a strategic imperative well within Presidential purview, but that doesn’t mean the system of exploitation should remain. Child labor is generally good when you’re talking about de-tasseling or potato harvesting, as it’s actually an important part of the community that builds a lot of bonds. $3 an hour was a great opportunity for a 12 year old in 1992.
I’d be generally okay with a carve-out for long-time agricultural workers, provided it doesn’t allow everyone in the USA to instantly become long-time agricultural workers through technicalities or loopholes. In my perfect scenario, strategically vital workers would need to agree to an urgent citizenship track, meaning being able to pass the citizenship test like any other immigrant.
Like an Operation Paperclip, but for foreign nationals in the strategically important area of growing food. Or rocketry.
It is definitely a tricky problem for a President to tackle, and it gives ammunition to his critics in every ideological camp. I am still completely behind Trump and everything he’s doing. He seems to be navigating the situation well, in my estimation. I don’t expect perfection, I expect results.
The system of exploitation is set up by the farmers though. They are the ones doing the exploiting
I believe the liberal position for a long time has been that you have to address the issue at the farmer level, not the illegal level. AKA punish the “farmers” (which are really the CEOs and such of massive corporations, not some guy with a wheat stalk in his mouth on a tractor) who are knowingly hiring illegals to the point that the entire industry depends on them. But they are too rich to ever actually touch, as Trump has just demonstrated. It isn’t about them being illegals, who is hiring them. The system of exploitation must remain
But the larger point is that his reasoning sounds exactly like a bleeding heart liberal scum he has spent the last 10 years lambasting. These are, generally speaking, well meaning and hard working people doing jobs for wages no American wants to touch and the answer the issue of immigration isn’t the largest deportation campaign the world has ever seen.
To me this undercuts his entire messaging campaign on illegals… they’re the scum of the earth and dregs of society that we have to get rid of rapidly and en masse because they are all criminals and poisoning the blood of the country… unless we don’t because actually they are the hard working people propping up industries we all depend on and by and large are just people doing their jobs and living their lives.
As always with trump there might be a small kernel of truth underpinning his ideas but his execution is absolutely dog shit and probably does more harm than good.
Still waiting on 90 tariff deals in 90 days. Only 90 more to go
There’s truth to that, but there’s also a political element to allowing that to happen for so long.
MAGA is not the Republican party of the pre-Trump years. The basic ideology is the same, but the expectation of the people behind it is completely different. This is way bigger than just Trump.
That seems like a pretty childish interpretation of the totality of his words over the years. I don’t think there’s ever been a President who has said as much as Trump has that can be dissected and spun into all kinds of wild directions.
You might see unforgivable inconsistency here, but I see leadership. I don’t expect an all-knowing President, but a leader who can navigate unknown waters. So far Trump still has a solid A- from me.
In no world has Trump ever expressed anything on immigration other than how horrible it is, how terrible the people themselves are (except for “and some I assume are good people”) and how his absolute sole focus has been to deport everyone here illegally and close off any more people from coming here.
The reason there is so much arguing about trumps positions is because what Trump says magically gets interpreted by his supporters as what he “really means” and if you quote him directly you get some combination of “he didn’t say that” or “he didn’t actually mean that” … which appears to be where we are at now
Sure Trump said he was going to deport everyone here illegally and that’s totally awesome! Except now he says something different and in complete opposition to his previous statement and that’s really what he meant the whole time and I’m the “hater” because I didn’t like the thing he said originally, which apparently he doesn’t either now
“Legal immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways. I want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally.”
“The millions of legal immigrants who have come to America over the past half century are now cherished members of our national family. Going forward — (applause) — it is their interest, and in their interest, and their children’s interest, to adopt a green card system that promotes a rising standard of living for all of our citizens.”
“Our proposal is pro-American, pro-immigrant, and pro-worker. It’s just common sense. It will help all of our people, including millions of devoted immigrants, to achieve the American Dream.”
Fair enough. I was too heavy handed in my post and will try to correct my thinking on it and language I use in the future .
I still think Generally speaking the tone of his public remarks and his rallies and off the cuff remarks conveys a much different message than these official documents put forward
I firmly believe that you should only ever correct your thinking and your language in the ways you believe are best, and never what anyone pressures you to do for whatever silly reason they might have.
