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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Rock, paper, scissors.
Maine is furious. Maine is fuming. What you saw right there were thousands of protesters in Portland, Maine, protesting against Donald Trump's despicable regime and the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo that are terrorizing the people of Maine and the rest of this country. We've seen Donald Trump's approval plummet across the country.
but perhaps one of the areas where it is the worst and maybe surprisingly so, but not if you know Maine's independent streak. In Maine, Donald Trump's approval right now is below net negative 18%. Just look at Donald Trump's approval in some of these other states right here. I mean, Georgia, he's negative 18.6. Maine right here, negative 18.4%.
Chapter 2: Why are protests erupting in Maine against Donald Trump?
Even in Texas, Donald Trump's negative 17.2%. Now in Maine, they're going through a recession in the state induced by Donald Trump's tariffs against the world, Donald Trump's attacks on Canada. You know, Maine and Canada's relations are so close that now that Canada's boycotting the United States, that's impacting Maine a ton, especially Canada's tourism boycott.
The Trump regime has invaded Maine with ICE and Border Patrol, Gestapo, and it announced that invasion right around the same time as its surge with its invasion of Minneapolis. Now, The Trump regime claims it's pulling out of both Minneapolis and Portland, Maine, but the Trump regime lies about everything. And we've seen some horrifying images.
And the people of Portland, Maine and throughout Maine have experienced horrifying situations where ICE is absolutely terrorizing and torturing the community. I mean, just take a look at this story right here from this past week, where Maine's top federal judge, a chief judge, ordered ICE to release a woman arrested without a warrant. Francois Mukiza was detained by ICE, Gestapo.
on January 23rd while leaving her neighborhood for work. And Maine's chief judge, U.S. District Court judge, told immigration officials this past Friday they had to release this asylum seeker, Francois Mukiza, who was arrested as she was leaving her house for work. Just listen to this story.
Mukiza and her family lived in the country for more than a dozen years, having arrived on visas in 2011 from Colombia. They were refugees there from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Chapter 3: What is the current approval rating of Donald Trump in Maine?
She is the mother of a 12-year-old US citizen and works providing professional support to residents in an assisted living facility, according to court records. Mukiza has no criminal history, according to her lawyer, and has been waiting since a hearing last summer for an answer on her asylum application. I know that she and her family are ecstatic, attorney Christine Hanley said Friday.
Even the week-long detention has been very trying for their family and very scary for the family. Judge Lance Walker wrote in his order that Mukiza's status as an asylum seeker had no bearing on his order. Instead, he was more concerned with the lack of an administrative warrant. Quote, should be permitted to effectuate the orderly application of federal immigration law prescribed by Congress.
Walker, who was nominated by Donald Trump in 2018, wrote in the order. This is a Trump-appointed judge, who's the chief judge in Maine. However, I question the notion that the activities that have brought petitioner and others to the court via habeas petitions have generally borne the hallmark of orderliness and meticulous observation of statutory details.
Now, dozens, perhaps hundreds, perhaps thousands, Thousands of other Maine immigrants arrested by ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo in the last year have filed similar petitions, alleging that they are being held unlawfully. And so whether you're talking about immigration or the economy, Maine is suffering. I mean, take a look at this.
Moody's lists Maine as one of 22 states facing recession right now. Mounting job losses and rising prices are squeezing Maine's economy. If you're noticing your dollar isn't going as far as it used to be, you aren't alone, 13WGME reports. Sure, hoping for grocery prices to come down, but those prices are not there.
Eggs are still too high, bread is still too high, is what you would expect given the general tenor of the country. $16 billion of Maine's economy comes from tourism, especially Canadian tourism, but Trump's trade war with Canada resulted in Canadians boycotting Maine this past summer. The Maine Office of Tourism reports the state likely lost 225,000 tourists this summer.
And that corresponds to $139 million that stayed in Canada over the summer. And don't get me started on the tariffs against the world, which have increased input prices and increased prices on consumers dramatically. Then you have instances like this taking place in Maine, where ICE agents threatened to assault and illegally arrest a US citizen in Portland, Maine.
In this video, a man is legally observing ICE activity in his own neighborhood, and watch what the ICE Gestapo do. Here, play this clip.
How are you doing today? Good, and you? Are you following us? Um, yeah. Okay, so what you're doing is called impeding federal law enforcement, okay? It's an 18 U.S.C. Charge 111.
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Chapter 4: How is Trump's immigration policy affecting Maine's economy?
I see. It's your first and only warning. Thank you. If you continue to impede us and follow us, you will be arrested. Yeah, except I'm not impeding you. Okay, you just openly admitted that you were following us, so. I am following you. I'm not impeding you. I'm observing you. It is impeding. No, it's actually not. You have the one warning. Keep doing it. We'll pull you back out and arrest you.
Yeah, okay, thanks. Okay.
Then there was this clip that went viral out of Portland, Maine and South Portland, where ICE take a photo of a peaceful protester and observer of their terrorism. They take a photo and say, we have a nice little database and we're putting you on that database now. Let's play this clip right here.
Yeah, yeah. Look at them. Look at them. The ICE is here, guys. Be careful, be careful. They're over here. It's not illegal to record. Exactly. Yeah. That's what we're doing. Yeah. Why are you taking my information down? Because we have a nice little database. Oh, good. And now you're considered domestic terrorists. We're videotaping you? Are you crazy?
Now I want to bring in Troy Jackson, candidate Democrat for the governor of Maine in the upcoming election. Troy, great to see you again. Troy, you know, one of the things with this Trump regime is that they'll say things. We're doing this. We're doing this. And then not only is it a lie, but it is such a lie that it was never even attached to a semblance of reality. So look, the news is out.
that they susan collins is saying and also when you start with susan collins is saying you also may have to have the caveat that it's probably alive but she's saying that ice is retreating right now from maine we've seen some horrific videos of ice doing terrible things to people uh in maine i don't think it was getting enough attention nationally but they were doing horrible things uh to people in maine and so they say that but
they say a lot of things why don't we start there troy troy good to see you by the way yeah well thanks ben appreciate being on again yeah well that's the thing i mean uh obviously what's been happening in minnesota has been horrific and you know that's been taking up uh everything what's been going on in maine is bad but not compared to there but we've certainly been dealing with a lot uh you know susan collins has been making promises and saying things throughout my entire life and um
and what we know is uh you know they've been going around doing all kinds of crazy stuff here in maine hauling people out of vehicles you know violating their fourth amendment rights uh using kids as bait um you know and it's just been insane what what's been happening here in maine and uh yeah exactly i mean they don't let facts get in the way at all of what's been happening and then
You know, it's just something that shouldn't be. It's not the way Maine has been. And, you know, we're 47th as far as immigration here in Maine.
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Chapter 5: What incidents highlight the impact of ICE in Maine?
We're the whitest state in the nation. And, you know, they're just going around targeting people for no good reason at all.
and it's hurting our economy it's certainly scaring the people in the state uh it's hurting the the hospitals it's hurting the schools it's hurting everything and if anything maine needs to welcome immigrants to the state to mean we're an older state we need people to come to it
uh certainly if uh you know there's anyone that's violated any law we want to make sure that's taken care of but that's not the case here they're just going around targeting anyone that doesn't look like me or you and and that's not the way maine should be that's not the way anywhere in the united states should be and there's no place for it in maine yeah i mean you mentioned the economy and how
a state like Maine and places throughout this country need some injections of people who wanna contribute to this economy, because things are rough. And you'd put out a video before, earlier in January, that things were rough before Trump and things were getting rough and getting more rough over the years.
The thing is, is that Trump though said that I am going to fix this, I'm going to make it better. He's made it worse. But worse yet, he's claimed he's fixed it. Right now, as we're heading into February 2026, he's doing the victory lap as though what just took place over the last year has saved the people of Maine and the rest of this country, that everybody should be grateful and that this is...
mission accomplished and that to me is also part of the thing that's pissing people off it's like you made it worse and now you're spiking the foot but we're not stupid right i mean there's a component of that absolutely i mean the thing about i mean people you're exactly right i mean they treat voters like they're they are idiots and that is not the case i mean we know better and here in maine i mean our health care costs are going through the roof once again i mean they're going up even more dramatically
And people know that, people can feel it. Food prices are out of control, our healthcare, our prescription drugs. And those are all things that people have been feeling for a long time. And like I said in that video, Democrats have to own that too. And Trump said he was gonna make all those things cheaper and he hasn't. And that's why people are frustrated with all political parties.
And I get that very well. And that's the things that we need to fight on. Democrats need to step up and fight for healthcare, prescription drugs, childcare, nursing homes.
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Chapter 6: What recent legal decisions have influenced ICE actions in Maine?
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.
Then, of course, there are the attacks on Canada that happen every day by this Trump regime. He wakes up. He says now they get about 100% tariffs on Canada if Canada enters into a trade pact with China after Trump said, I'm fine with the trade pact with China. And the only reason that Canada did that is because they've been attacked by the United States.
So they're just trying to find somebody else because their traditional ally keeps attacking them over and over again. And now we learn that.
that the trump regime is working with a separatist movement in alberta ala putin working with separatist movements in the donbass to try to get alberta to secede from canada and you think about the close relationship between maine and canada and also how this impacts the economy there and it's like to your point it's like what are we doing here why why are you what's the end game other than to really harm america
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. And now it's become a real problem. It's really challenging for logging.
It's really challenging for farming, things like that. People are really feeling the effects of the tariffs across the state. And we're seeing real challenges with people, tourism, things like that. that these tariffs are hurting the state big time and something's gotta change.
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