Susan Collins of ME says Donald Trump’s recent comments about her state’s Somali community were “disparaging” and “unhelpful”.
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During the speech at Merrill Auditorium in Maine, Trump said the USA does not do a good job of vetting refugees, which he said raises safety issues in Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio reported.
“They’re coming from some of the most risky territories and countries in the world, and this is a practice that has to stop”, Trump said of Somali refugees.
Dozens of people gathered on the steps of Portland City Hall Friday afternoon to condemn Donald Trump’s comments during his rally Thursday that juxtaposed refugees with terrorists. Collins released a statement Friday that said ME has a long history of benefiting from immigration, “including our friends from Somalia”.
“We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them”, Trump, who has built his campaign around an anti-immigration platform, said at a rally in Portland, Maine. He rejected Trump’s characterization of Somalis. In June, three young Somali men there were found guilty of federal charges that they tried to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.
Other Somali communities have grown in places such as Minnesota and Columbus, Ohio. “You see it, and you can be smart, and you can be cunning and tough, or you can be very, very dumb and not want to see what’s going on, folks”.
Abdullahi prepared a written response to Trump’s statements as well in which he says people’s willingness to accept Trump’s rhetoric results from a lack of awareness of the conditions refugees are fleeing from. We are not. And at this time we are part of the community.
Obama has endorsed the Democratic nominee and his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.
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MPA members who talked about the protest said on Friday they couldn’t remember which of them first came up with the idea.
