Sunday, May 08, 2016

Little Lewiston, ME has 34 languages in the school system!

Little Lewiston, ME has 34 languages in the school system! « Refugee Resettlement Watch:
"...Changing America one town at a time.
Besides the expense to the school system, this family obviously entered the US illegally and are in Maine where the welfare is good for so-called ‘asylum seekers.’
They are hoping to persuade an immigration judge that they are legitimate refugees and they have been told to go to Maine to wait out the legal process.
...LEWISTON — Joao Rodrigues and his children moved to Maine this past winter from Africa.
His children are among the city’s 1,374 students in the English Language Learner program. 
One out of every four Lewiston students is in the ELL program; most are Somali children, but ELL students speak a total of 34 languages.
Speaking Portuguese and communicating through an interpreter, he shared how he and his children fled their native Angola, a country of unrest and violence.
They escaped to the Democratic Republic of the Congo before making their way to the United States. [“making their way” is code for arriving through questionable means—ed]..."

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