Troy Jackson

Housing has certainly become a huge issue.

And, you know, what I've been saying, you know, so people across the state understand is that, you know, the Somalians and other immigrants here in Maine are not my oppressors.

They're not the ones that have been driving my health care costs up.

Wall Street has been the ones that drive my health care costs up.

People like Donald Trump that are making sure that his friends are getting more and more money are the ones that are driving my healthcare costs up, not the immigrants that have come to Maine that are trying to do everything they can to fight for their families.

And that's why we have to band together to try and do whatever we can to push back on this 1% that are just killing all of us.

Yeah, well, I mean, that's really close to me for where I live in St.

John Valley.

I mean, they literally made the St.

John River the boundary and split families.

You know, one day the people were, you know, both sides of the river were Maine.

And then one day they just split the St.

John River became the boundary.

And people went from...

know maine and canada being uh split like that and so uh we have people on both sides of the river that are family members that are you know divided like that and um and that's how close you know our country is to to new brunswick and quebec um up in the st john valley the you know our our countries are very well connected and and you know i've had um

you know, issues with in the past and the logging industry.

But it wasn't the Canadian workers.

What it was was the big landowners that were using Canadian workers to drive down wages over here in the United States.

We've always had that similarity that that, you know,

working across borders that trade.