Mayor’s Concern About Influx Offends Somalis
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Somali immigrants are expressing resentment over a letter by Lewiston Mayor Larry Raymond urging them to “exercise some discipline” and stop moving so quickly into Maine’s second-largest city.
Leaders of the Somali community were meeting over the weekend to draft a response to the letter, which expressed alarm about the arrival of more than 1,000 Somalis in Lewiston, a city of about 35,000 residents, during the last 20 months.
City officials estimate that about half of the 412 Somali adults living in Lewiston have found work, but many are receiving public aid.
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