Comment worth noting: Shocked at what I saw in
Lewiston, ME, and I love diversity, by
Ann Corcoran 2/15/17
Editor:
If you visit RRW often, you know that we occasionally post comments (and guest
opinion pieces) from readers. This was sent to our gmail account a few days ago
and I wanted you to see it. I’ll make an observation at the end.
From someone whose family
has lived in Lewiston for almost 100 years:
I just wanted to give you an update on what Refugee Resettlement can do
to a city, Lewiston, ME is the home of my Grandparents, since the early 20’s,
yes the 1920’s.
Most of my siblings were born in and
around Lewiston, as well as my Mother, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
I was really surprised when I returned after being away for about 20
years, to see the Somalian refugees in the town.
I don’t mind other people, but the sheer numbers of people, then I spoke to my
cousins who have lived there all their lives, and they explained the issues of
crime, school violence, poverty, rejection of American values, and the general
hatred of women by the Somali refugees.
They kept saying, we can’t get out here to look at a location where
family used to live, and how the area had really gone down hill since the
refugees arrived. Some of my cousins were victims of
violence from Somali Gangs, and that the schools were in shambles because they
couldn’t handle the language and culture issues that arise when you dump 15,000
Somali’s on a small town in Maine.
The destruction is irreversible, and horrific, I cried when I saw some
of the town and how much it had changed. For
example Kennedy park was a beautiful place where my Mom and sisters went to
picnic and how nice it was. We were told to stay in the car because Somali drug
dealers had taken over the park, and it wasn’t safe.
This type of immigration, the dumping of large numbers of refugees,
does not work, it doesn’t help integration. I’m
from Orange County California, I went to school with Mexican Gangs, who had
their territory, Vietnamese gangs that arrived in large numbers in the 70’s and
Korean Gangs that had arrived in the 60’s. Immigrants do not integrate when we
drop them in large numbers, it doesn’t work, they don’t integrate.
I love the diversity of America, I am the product of immigrants, but
all you have to do is look at what we have done in the past to see that mass
integration [does he mean mass immigration?—ed] does not work. We need to drop these immigrants in small numbers across
America so they can integrate and become part of the culture instead of
allowing them to cluster in large numbers which means that integration will be
slow if at all.
My thoughts on this issue
of numbers and integration…
First, the Open Borders Left wants
to use the word ‘integration’ rather than the word ‘assimilation,’ see here. But, more importantly readers should
know that refugees move in America—especially Somalis who got to Lewiston many
years ago after they ‘discovered’ Maine’s generous welfare (see here).
Somalis can be placed (and they are)
all over America by the resettlement contracting agencies, but often
quickly move to be with their own kind of people in Minneapolis,
Columbus, Seattle, San Diego, Lewiston and elsewhere.
So for all of you pushing for your governors to block resettlement (it
will help some), remember though that you can’t stop secondary migration!
Say for example, the Refugee
Admissions Program eventually allows certain states (governors) to stop the
placement of refugees in their states, and say Vermont wants refugees and New
Hampshire doesn’t, then they will place them in Vermont, but then encourage
them to move over to New Hampshire after a few months. Likewise as Minnesota
opens its arms to more Somalis they will eventually drift in to neighboring
states! (Hijra!)
So, yes, integration/assimilation
can’t happen when ethnic enclaves build in certain cities, but…..The real problem,
in my opinion, is that the overall numbers being admitted to the US are too
high! We need an immigration time out!
This post is filed in our ‘comments
worth noting/guest posts’ category, here. Our Lewiston archive is here.
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