U.S. Senators from Maine Angus King and Susan Collins, alongside Democratic District 1 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting a rule change that would provide more funding to shelters for migrants.
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King, Collins and Pingree are requesting that if Congress provides additional funding for the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), that the 45-day limitation on that federal aid for migrants be increased to 180 days.
FEMA’s SSP funding provides aid to local governments and nonprofit organizations that provide shelter and other services to noncitizen migrants who have been encountered by DHS and released from custody while awaiting the outcome of their immigration proceedings — a designation which applies to “asylum seekers.”
The SSP has no defined legal limit, but the eligibility period for the funds typically lasts 45 days from the release of a migrant by DHS.
King, Collins and Pingree wrote that the 45-day limitation is “inappropriate for migrant destination locations like Maine.”
“Maine immigrant services groups struggle with the 45-day limitation because migrants arriving in the state have typically been released from DHS custody many days prior, reducing the period in which these individuals and families may receive support,” they wrote.
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Uh…NO
If you support the genocidal jews you must also support the migrant invasion.
jewish minister calls for “voluntary emigration” of Gazans
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-minister-calls-voluntary-emigration-gazans-2023-11-14/
Obviously Maine’s Congressional delegation has NO interest in acting in the best interests of American CITIZENS !
Offering more and better “free” everything for illegal alien invaders will only serve to lure more invaders!
…King, Collins and Pingree: the Democrat voices of Maine!
How about we close the borders and make the people leave that do not qualify for asylum. Most do not qualify. There is not enough room/money for all the homeless.. yet we go out of our way for illegals. We give them a monthly allotment, food stamps, medical, housing. In the meantime Americans are suffering with high inflation. A lot of Americans are on the verge of homelessness. Many can not afford the basic necessities… yet they are worrying about people that are not Americans. Got to love politicians!
From what I have read here and elsewhere, the vast majority of what the Maine Wire is now terming ” migrants” are legally catagorized as “Illegal Aliens”. Why has the Maine Wire gone so politically correct as to employ the leftist language used by leftists King, Collins and Pingree?
Please help Mainers first!!!
Collins has got to go, The independent is not free, The S. Maine Rep wants me to be a slave.
The support illegals who come here from countries like China, Iran, etc, who do not like us, fight us.
I will not submit!
How about just setting aside funds to send them back to where they came from?