Well, they're all talking about it — Maine, Somali refugees," Trump said Thursday. Laurier Raymond, then Lewiston's mayor, told Somalis to stop relocating to the city in 2002 because of what he called a strain on social services. Rick Bennett, the chairman of the Maine Republican Party, said he did not think Trump's comments in Portland were a declarative statement that Maine's Somalis are dangerous. He added that the growth of Maine's Somali community is "an example of legal immigration working." Somalis began coming to Maine in the 1990s as part of a refugee resettlement effort in Portland.

Source: ABC News August 05, 2016 16:05 UTC