Meet One of the Women Responsible for the Wave of Refugees in Maine

Posted on by Maine First Media

6/21/18, Maine First Media Staff Report,

While Lewiston suffers through violent tensions between residents and Somali refugees, the Lewiston Sun Journal ran a puff piece celebrating one of the women responsible for the surge in foreigners to the community.

The Sun Journal bathed Fatuma Hussein in praise for her work founding the Immigrant Resource Center and credited the Somali refugee for the “wave” of foreigners flooding into Maine over the past decade.

While the Sun Journal gushed about the greatness of the migrant community, a Lewiston family grieved over the loss of a father of two following a fatal brawl last week involving a mob off young Somalis. The man was beaten to death with a brick.

The puff piece also forgot to mention that last month a gang of Somali kids was caught on video attacking bystanders at Kennedy Park with sticks and bats just last month.

You also wouldn’t find any mention of any of the long history of fraud committed against hardworking Mainers, perpetrated by Somalis in Maine — including the two immigrant brothers convicted of a massive welfare fraud scheme at a Portland Halal grocery store.

No, instead the Sun Journal ran with Hussien’s biography and painted her as a brave hero deserving of the highest of honors.

However, Hussein’s own words paint a drastically different picture. For example, she warned Lewiston residents that she and her fellow immigrants are “not going anywhere, whether Mainers like it or not.” She went on to say it’s refugees who make Lewiston and all of Maine great and colorful.

Hussein advocated to force working families in Maine to spend millions on a new Welcome Center for Foreign workers and a new cabinet position, “Office of New Mainers.”

And Hussein also fights against banning the brutal ritual child abuse of Female Genital Mutilation.

After migrating to the United States, the mother of eight moved to Maine from Georgia to capitalize on the plentiful handouts the Pine Tree State offers non-citizens — for example, $40,000 in grants form DHHS to help her launch the open-borders organization that pays her salary still to this day.

In the piece, Hussein says she convinced other refugees to move to Lewiston because they’d be safe there. Unfortunately, since the occupation of Lewiston by these, “new Mainers,” many parents in the city no longer feel safe to bring their children to Kennedy Park to play.

The Sun Journal’s poor excuse for a story appears to have been in line with the United Nations’ World Refugee Day. A celebration was scheduled for Lewiston for Wednesday, June 20th. However, the festivities were canceled. Organizers felt it would be in bad taste in light of the recent outbreak in refugee violence.

Fatuma Hussein was one of the first 50 Somalis to come to Maine. Since then, she’s responsible for changing the culture of our great state. Hussein believes it is refugees that make Lewiston great. However, Lewiston residents will tell you they’re not feeling so great about the recent rash of violence in the community.


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