{"id":53980,"date":"2024-03-03T08:25:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53980"},"modified":"2024-03-03T08:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T13:25:54","slug":"what-are-they-thinking-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53980","title":{"rendered":"What Are They Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The U.K. Daily Mail<\/a> posted an article about a planned apartment complex in Brunswick, Maine.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Residents of a\u00a0Maine<\/a>\u00a0town have hit out at the $13million construction of a complex of 60 apartments for asylum seekers, where they can live rent free for two years then pay a fraction of the rental price.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Locals in Brunswick have expressed fury over the project, which is being funded by a mix of private and public money and which has been heavily criticized by\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0Jr.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The apartment complex in Brunswick is one of the many projects being launched by the town in what critics have labeled a\u00a0‘Taj Mahal’, red-carpet welcome for asylum seekers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are currently 180 apartments in the Brunswick Landing complex available for anyone to rent. A one bedroom unit costs $1,800 a month, while a two-bedroom costs $2,300 a month.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new buildings for asylum seekers will allow residents to live rent-free for up to two years while they obtain work permits.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then, if they obtain a job that pays half of the average local salary of $60,000, they will only have to pay a third of the rental price. It boils down to a monthly cost of around $500 for a one bedroom, and $690 for a two bedroom.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

“Up in this part of the world, and up in Maine, they are giving illegal immigrants free housing \u2014 multi-million dollar free housing, while they’re kicking out veterans in the street,’ he said in a news clip shared by the conservative Maine Wire<\/a>. ‘I mean, what’s going on?’\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maine has a population of around 1.3 million people and has recently struggled to deal with a rise in migrants. In Portland, city officials said they received more than 1,600 asylum seekers last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But for the 23 families who have already moved into the complex, the facilities are a lifeline.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among those benefitting is a woman from Nigeria named Esther, who described the accommodation as ‘life changing’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She moved into the complex after being moved between hotels and shelters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘In [a] hotel, there are rules and regulations,’ Esther told\u00a0News Center Maine.<\/a>\u00a0‘In a shelter too, we have so many people. We share the kitchen together. We share the restroom together.’\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott Thistle, a spokesperson for MaineHousing, told FOX23 that fewer than\u00a0 percent of the $1.24 billion the agency has allocated in the last two years was for asylum seeker-specific housing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s take care of our veterans and Americans struggling with finances first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article about a planned apartment complex in Brunswick, Maine. The article reports: Residents of a\u00a0Maine\u00a0town have hit out at the $13million construction of a complex of 60 apartments for asylum seekers, where … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3145,102,8538,146,10091,13343,11839,12842],"class_list":["post-53980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-construction","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-immigrants","tag-maine","tag-migrants","tag-the-u-k-daily-mail","tag-u-k-daily-mail","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53982,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53980\/revisions\/53982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}