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However, the legislature has left a loophole in their plans. After two years, the units are expected to be converted to a mix of market-rate and affordable housing unless the legislature says the program needs to be extended in order to allow for more funding of the free rent program in the event the immigrants do not get jobs.

Furthermore, it is doubtful these units will ever be converted to “market-rate” rents after two years of free-rent living has taken place there.

Currently, the illegal immigrant free rent fund is hovering around $3.5 million of taxpayer dollars and is administered by the Maine State Housing Authority. It is intended to house 60 immigrant families for a minimum of two years.

The illegal immigrants who literally won this rent-free housing were selected by lottery after hundreds of applications were received within hours of opening the waitlist. However, Maine’s homeless citizens and veterans are not targeted to receive this assistance. The Lewiston-based Immigrant Resource Center of Maine has been contracted to provide support services to the illegal immigrants housed in these apartments.

According to mainepublic.org, “Fatuma Hussein, the group's executive director, said that support involves everything from helping furnish the apartments to creating long-term stability plans to help each family get established based on their own goals.”

In other words, immigrants are not only enjoying free rent in these facilities, but also receiving free money to furnish them. But that's not where the public largesse ends. The state is also providing $100,000 to dozens of the illegal immigrants for a year’s worth of asylum application and work authorization assistance.

The “royal treatment” continues with the United Way of Mid Coast Maine, which is planning to launch a bus program to transport the migrants, WGME reports. “It could be running to the grocery store or doctors' appointments,” Executive Director Nicole Evans said, according to WGME. “We truly hope everyone in the community will raise their hand to help however they can.”

As if the illegal immigrants aren't already receiving enough free help.

Newscenter Maine reports, “A woman named Esther from Nigeria is one of the asylum seekers already living in these units. She said the shift there from living in hotels and shelters has been life-changing—and that the apartment feels like a 'palace.' ‘In [a] hotel, there are rules and regulations,’ Esther said. ‘In a shelter too, we have so many people. We share the kitchen together. We share the restroom together.’”

But not so with these brand new luxury apartments provided rent free, courtesy of the Maine taxpayers who live in one of the poorest and most highly taxed states in the U.S.

The Maine legislature, which is dominated by Democrats at this point, is coddling and courting the illegal immigrants as new class of citizen in the state in order to swell the numbers of potential Democratic party voters. Since the illegal immigrants come from third-world hell holes and are accustomed to tyrannical, authoritarian dictatorships and a nanny-state exploiting and micro-managing every aspect of its citizens' lives, the political ideologies of the illegal immigrants will fit nicely with the Democratic party now and into the future.

It doesn't matter that illegal immigrants are not eligible to vote, once they receive a driver's license and can show residency in the state, they can easily register to vote and continue the destructive and bankrupting policies of the Democratic party until there is no more money available to siphon off of the Maine taxpayers.

Listen to Tom Homan’s full testimony to Congress, noted at the beginning of this article, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCocCkhr0m8