The Maine State Chamber of Commerce recently held a closed-to-the-public meeting with the Mills Administration to receive an informational presentation on her planned “Office of New Americans (ONA).”
Gov. Janet Mills directed her Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) to develop a plan to establish the ONA via Executive Order on August 3.
The ONA will be tasked with attracting “New Mainers” to address the state’s workforce shortage, and sets a goal of bringing 75,000 people into Maine by 2029.
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“For generations, immigrants have brought their skills, education, and ability to Maine to build a better life for themselves and their families, contribute to the vitality of our communities, and become the workforce that our employers in Maine desperately need. This is as true today as it was a century ago,” Gov. Mills said regarding the ONA in August.
“My order will develop a plan for a new office to help us ensure that Maine is fully drawing on the talents and skills of those who want to live and work in and contribute to our great state,” Mills said. “This is a critical step for Maine’s economic future as we address our workforce shortage and support our communities and businesses.”
The goal of 75,000 new workers comes from the state’s 10-year Economic Development Strategy, and includes bringing current unemployed Maine residents and out-of-staters into the workforce.
That said, the Economic Development Strategy emphasizes the importance of “welcoming foreign immigrants” to combat the labor shortage.
Mills’ Executive Order also states that “foreign-born residents are a vital part of our state’s communities and economy,” and references that Maine’s ONA will be part of the Office of New Americans State Network.
Maine will join 18 other states in the ONA State Network, which Mills’ Order says are dedicated offices “for supporting the economic and civil inclusion of international immigrants.”
In an Aug. 3 press release, Quincy Hentzel, President and CEO of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce said, “The state’s economic development plan makes clear we need to aggressively expand our workforce by 2030, and there’s no better way to do that than by harnessing the skills, experience, and education of foreign-born professionals” — making no mention of out-of-state workers or unemployed Mainers.
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Shenna Cox, President and CEO of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, made a similar statement.
“The founding of the Office of New Americans is an important next step in expanding the pathways to success for the many people born abroad who today call Maine home,” Cox said.
The CEO of Catholic Charities of Maine, Steven P. Letourneau, said his organization looks forward to working with the ONA, citing Catholic Charities’ work providing services to “asylum-seeking families” and resettling refugees.
The meeting between the Mills administration and the Maine State Chamber of Commerce was held Nov. 16 at 10 a.m.
When attempting to attend the meeting, one registrant was told by the Maine State Chamber of Commerce Director of Operations Mark Ellis that the meeting was “intended for members only,” and the registration was removed, according to an email obtained by the Maine Wire.
In response to a request for comment on the secret meeting, a spokesperson for the Chamber said: “The Maine State Chamber welcomes informational presentations for Chamber members and appreciated the outreach from the Mills Administration to explain the purpose and potential structure of the proposed Office of New Americans.”
“Workforce development and labor availability have been consistently raised by business leaders and we look forward to addressing those issues through training, population growth, and integrating immigrants into the Maine economy,” the spokesperson told the Maine Wire.
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Maybe someone should take a look at the Center for Immigration Studies –
https://cis.org/Arthur/Migrant-Crisis-Portland-Maine?&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=addtoany
With over 6.5 million illegals entering the United States annual…
If just 5 percent are Portland bound, that’s 328,000 new arrivals annually — to a city with a population of fewer than 69,000, in a state of just over 1.372 million. That math doesn’t add up. Someone is lying to the people of Maine!
Last I checked for 2022, Steve Letourneau, CEO of Catholic Charities-ME, was pulling down a salary of $143K with another $32K in benefits. Now, that’s what I call altruism much like politicians who become millionaires as “public servants” at the DC feeding trough. I also know a translator who worked for these phonies who was paid $10./hr. while CC billed the state at a rate of $50./hr. The taxpayers are being hosed as usual and there are never any consequences.
Here’s a novel idea: cut off the welfare benefits for Americans who won’t work and there won’t be a need to import “New Americans”.
Another Democrat idiot — Maine needs to reduce the tax burden on it’s citizens and create a more business friendly environment for tech and manufacturing.
Mills is determined to follow the California model: destroy business, over burden the real citizens, import tons of welfare recipients, and be preoccupied with Lefty nonsense.
All the while ignoring the Chinese backed crime min Main.
– Gov. Mills has stated she wants to spend a whopping $300 million over the next two years on illegals.
– Now, she wants a new government agency funded with our tax dollars to support illegals.
– And Maine is still paying out welfare to lazy individuals in the form of “unemployment insurance” even though there’s a worker shortage and tons of jobs available.
– look at the other posts here! They’re on target! Maine is following MA, NY and every other liberal state down the crime-ridden, rat hole! There’s not enough money in the world to support all the illegals. STOP incentivizing them to come to Maine! Only vetted, legal migrants with valid visas should be in Maine and no non-citizen should be receiving welfare! Stop it!
“New Americans” —– leftist democrats are doing it again, changing our lexicon to suit their extreme, radical agenda.
“New Americans” = illegal aliens! Horrible! Fire Janet Mills!
…Jackboot Janet at it again. ‘Office of New Americans’!? These are NOT new Americans! They are illegal aliens! If these dum$$es stopped paying people to stay home, there wouldn’t be a ‘work shortage! Unbelievable these people cannot see past the end of their lunatic noses! Total lack of any common sense!
You know that what she and her cronies are doing is pernicious and harmful to Maine and to honest citizens because they have to do it in secret. “Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.” Attributed to John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
A passage of transcendent clarity from Thomas Sowell’s 1999 classic “The Quest for Cosmic Justice.” This passage appears in Section IV, titled “The Quiet Repeal of the American Revolution,” which fittingly, ends the book.
“In politics, the great non sequitur of our time is that (1) things are not right and that (2) government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government powers. That in turn means the quiet and piecemeal repeal of the American revolution and the freedom that it signified as an ideal for everyone. It means muffling the shot heard round the world and bringing back the old idea that some are booted and spurred to ride others. That they are riding with a heady sense of moral mission and personal gratification only makes them more dangerous. Such moral and intellectual arrogance is in fundamental and irreconcilable conflict with the American creed of the common man.”
Separately, I believe, based on looking into it several years back, that “Catholic Charities” has nothing to do with THE Catholic Church. They just seem to have appropriated the adjective in its non-proper sense. Which makes them fraudulent to begin with; they are obviously trying to trade on the name of the Roman Catholic Church. If my info is true, they are a racket and a grift.
Here’s a conspiracy theory for you:
Janet Mills appears to be a proponent of, perhaps even a participant in, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Great Reset”, “One World Government”, “New World Order” agenda of the globalist elites, such as Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, King Charles, and certain Rothschilds and Rockefellers. This “Great Reset” has been planned for decades and has been continually discussed at the WEF. There are many video recordings and WEF publications of these discussions. Mainstream media “Fact-checkers”, funded by these elites, write articles denying this is happening.
A main item of the “Great Reset” agenda is the depopulation of the world to between 500 million to 1 billion people, which means around 7 billion are to be exterminated. The Covid-19 “vaccine” injection product bioweapon is one of the depopulation/extermination tools; and, Janet Mills apparently employed this tool in her Covid-19 Plandemic executive orders which closed supposedly “unessential” businesses, mandated social distancing and worthless face masking, mandated Covid-19 bioweapon shots to be inflicted on health care workers, etc. Mills and the Maine CDC employed the fraudulent PCR test, using a cycle threshold well above the 35 cycle threshold that even Anthony Fauci is video recorded stating results in at least 95 percent false positives. These false positives were then fraudulently deemed “cases” of people infected with the alleged Covid-19 disease; although the inventor of the RT-PCR procedure “Kary Mullis” is video recorded stating that PCR cannot be used to diagnose any disease. These fraudulent “case” numbers were used to justify Janet Mills’ emergency executive orders.
Katherine Watt (paralegal researcher) and Sasha Latypova (former Pfizer clinical trial coordinator/director) have reported that U.S. Government documents reveal that the U.S. military controls the development, manufacture, and distribution of the Covid-19 mRNA injection products, which are manufactured under Other Transaction Authority (OTA), which governs how the Department of Defense (DOD) manufactures weapons. OTA does not require safety testing and does not even require that the weapons work. Apparently, Pfizer and Moderna are paid handsomely for the use of their corporate names on the final “vaccine” injection products. The CDC and FDA are not in control of these products, but are controlled by the military in this regard. These alleged Covid-19 injection products are bioweapons being used to depopulate the U.S.
The State of Maine has not reported how many Maine citizens who were injected with these Covid-19 bioweapons have subsequently died. This past week, the world is learning that a New Zealand database of record-level death data of New Zealanders injected with the alleged Covid-19 “vaccines” reveals that up to 30 percent of Covid-19 “vaccinated” New Zealanders died. This type of record-level data has not been reported by any individual, corporation, or governmental body, anywhere in the world. If any manufacturer, health care facility/corporation, corporate pharmacy, or government authority were to look at similar record-level data and find that there were such excessive deaths of the “vaccinated”, they would be required to report this to their government and these injection products would have to be immediately pulled from the market. If it were to be discovered that they did not report it, they would be subject to imprisonment. This is why the manufacturers, CDC, FDA, health care facilities, corporations such as pharmacies, are all intentionally not looking at this record-level data.
I meant to add to the above “Conspiracy Theory” that, perhaps this secret meeting regarding importing 75,000 non-citizen workers into Maine by 2029 “…to address the state’s workforce shortage” is necessitated by the number of Covid-19 “vaccinated” citizens who have subsequently been injured, debilitated, or died from these injections. How else does the State of Maine account for the obvious workforce shortage which has some businesses, such as gas station convenience stores, actually currently advertising $23 per hour or greater jobs as being available? Where did all the lower wage workers disappear to? Is this apparent loss of workers much of the impetus for the current Biden/Obama administration’s massive illegal immigration efforts on our borders? If the nation’s current workforce shortage becomes much more obvious, due to more Covie-19 “vaccinated” individuals being injured, debilitated, or dying, at some point, the current ongoing depopulation genocide may cause a Great Awakening of the U.S. citizenry and there will be hell to pay.