Former Maine Center for Disease Control head and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Nirav Shah blamed ICE raids for a reported January drop in retail revenue.
“The Maine Center for Economic Policy just put out some data on how economically impactful the January ICE raids were. What they found was disturbing. They found about a drop of about [sic] $3.4 million in retail activity in the parts of Maine that were the most affected by the raids,” said Shah in a social media video.
The Maine Center for Economy Policy findings claimed that the state’s economy suffered over a ten-day period during the short-lived ICE surge in the state and placed blame on law enforcement.
Shah used the findings to further his arguments against ICE raids and the enforcement of immigration law in the Maine.
The Center for Economic Policy said that they examined retail sales in the areas most heavily targeted by ICE from January 20-29.
On January 30, numerous businesses voluntarily shut down to protest against ICE, but it does not appear that the loss in sales voluntarily incurred through that protest would have factored into the Center’s findings.
According to the Center, 2,300 people were absent from work each day of the ICE surge, contributing to the reported negative economic effects.
The data could indicate that Maine houses so many illegal immigrants that it has an appreciable impact on the economy for them to stay home from work and stop shopping for just ten days.
Both Shah and the Center failed to consider the potential impact of left-wing anti-ICE rhetoric on the findings.
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) previously accused ICE of arresting people based on factors like skin color, accents, or religion.
Left-wing claims that ICE would target citizens or legal immigrants simply because of their race could have convinced some Mainers to stay home when they should have had no fear of immigration enforcement.
The Center also blamed ICE for a reported 1,000 student per-day drop in school attendance during the surge. That naturally raises questions about just how much of Mainers’ skyrocketing property taxes are being used to educate children of people in the country illegally.
While fearmongering about negative economic consequences of ICE, both Shah and the Center ignored the fact that the surge led to the arrests of violent criminals, drug traffickers, and sex offenders, who are no longer on Maine’s streets.
Mills and Shah caused 22% of small businesses to close during the Covid scamdemic and he’s lecturing us on the economic impact of ICE raids? He was also responsible for over 3,000 hospital protocol deaths in Maine by following CDC guidelines which caused liver and kidney failure with Remdesivir. He is a useless and pathetic slug.
Another moron that shouldn’t be in Maine
What a fool.Healthcare fraud by illegal Somalians has caused great damage to the Maine economy!
You sir are an assclown.(your policy’s during covid could be added to the list of reasons that destroyed Maines economy)
Hey Shah, go back to India. They could really use you there. We don’t need or want you here. They are overpopulated so you could get rid of a few of them there. You know, like throw them into the Ganges with weights around their ankles or some such thing. As a doc, you should have known better concerning the corona virus dictatorship. Ugh!!!
The Communist Democrats never mention the true cost of importing and supporting tens of millions of parasitic illegal alien savages !
Tone deaf moron
How many people lost their jobs because of your stupidity? How many businesses were put out of business because of you. SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE BEFORE SOMEONE SHUTS IT FOR YOU! Maybe you should think about running away like your health deepened on it, not running for office.
Shahs beef with ICE is nothing but pure rhetoric. To shift what’s really affecting Maines economy. The democrupts idiotic policies.. Illegals defrauding Maine state programs at will, bellying up to the public trough with no intention of ever seeking work, increasing health care costs by going to Emergency rooms for the lamest of reasons. Then off course there are all the illegal violent criminals that democrupts defend with no shame. The hell with the law abiding.