Last week, true to his promise of a sweep to remove foreign criminals from US soil, a complex and important task, President Trump green-lighted an ICE operation called “Tidal Wave” – removing hundreds of dangerous foreign criminals from Florida. Mr. President – Please send ICE to Maine.
This request may appear backburner, as Maine is a small state led by a belligerent, out-of-touch governor and Democrat majority, but we are overwhelmed by foreign drugs and traffickers of all kinds, Dominican, Chinese, and Mexican. Without federal law enforcement, we are sliding toward chaos – or to borrow from the Bible and Robert Bork, “slouching toward Gomorrah.”
Last week, we had another takedown of a Dominican trafficking group, this one in a small town of 6,000, Fairfield. Not part of the dominant “Trinatarios,” found across Maine now, and tied to fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, break-ins, assaults, murder, and child recruiting – this node was new.
In the house – and ironically, Mainers have too few homes – traffickers had tens of thousands in cash, enough fentanyl to kill 185,000 Mainers, $40,000 in crack-cocaine, and chloroform.
Chloroform is used to kidnap girls for sex trafficking. Often connected to drug abuse, this growing concern in Maine is real and must be stopped. Last month, a conviction was secured by the US Attorney in Portland for a sex trafficking group, but for every win, there are countless uncaught.
Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) made that conviction possible, citing “horrific violence inflicted upon women…difficult to comprehend.” Until recent years, Maine – where I grew up, a state of only 1.4 million – was safe and simple, honest and hard-working.
Today, these traffickers in drugs and humans, aided by a derelict Democrat governor and majority tone deaf or convinced alien votes matter more than citizen safety – continue to invite these illegal foreign forces into our state, turning a blind eye to the tragedy they have created for normal citizens.
Because of Maine’s Democrats, we now have 5,000 illegal aliens in the state, and Janet Mills and her progressive party want another 75,000. This is not sustainable, normal, legal, or safe. It must stop.
At the same time, hundreds of illegal Chinese “grow houses” are populated by Chinese non-citizens, fraudulently here on fake student visas or just illegal border jumpers. They do not speak English, are predominantly male, and traffic in fentanyl and illegal marijuana. They are a scourge.
So, here we are – the highest number of overdoses ever recorded in Maine, 10,000 last year, illegals in homes Mainers should have, hundreds of illegals in “grow houses” and distributing high potency drugs, some given two-year housing in places like Brunswick, once meant to house veterans.
They are then given EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards for millions in hard-earned Maine dollars, which Democrats know are regularly used to swap for drugs, reinforcing the whole spiral in Maine. These illegal aliens, who Janet Mills and her Democrats know undermine public safety, must go.
Mr. President, you accurately “called out” Maine’s anti-constitutional, anti-public safety, bellicose, and insufferable governor. Thank you. Now, in the name of all that is good for the people of Maine, to protect our girls, towns, homes, and state, please send ICE to Maine. We need an ICE “Tidal Wave” – right here.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
If you really want to have Federal immigration resources diverted to Maine, you need to coordinate with your U.S. Senators and House rep to help you make the case to Homeland Security.
Unfortunately, if ICE were to tackle states like California, it would consume all their resources. If the federal government wants to be successful, the entrenched politicians who are responsible for breaking the laws need to be dealt with first. Removing them and preventing further erosion is a monumental task. Corrupt governors and their attorney generals who refuse to uphold the law should be high on the list. They need to be incarcerated for their crimes.
If people really knew how much this effort is costing, they’d be WAY more outraged!!! Each of the first super concentrated efforts (and a few got leaked first) cost 1 million dollars each!!! Biden let in at least 7 million, plus all the Obama years, I’m betting there are 50 million illegals in the US now. The only way to get them OUT is if they self-deport! Jobs should ONLY be for citizens! E-Verify is the law in most states. Force employers to use it, if illegals have no jobs, no freebie benefits and no housing, they will LEAVE the country. 5 million Social Security numbers mailed out need to be pulled from EVERY illegal, drivers licenses cancelled, voters registrations culled. Every single illegal is a criminal if they did NOT register within 30 days when they first came in, and the SCOTUS needs to grow a backbone and let law enforcement move them out. Take them to the Mexico border they crossed and they can walk back home. Let Mexico deal with it. No reason for us to be flying these criminals back to their home countries.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I live in the Bangor area, and these stories of rampant lawlessness bear no resemblance to anything close to reality.
Were postage not so high, I’d suggest, Mr. Charles, that you make at least 100 copies of your letter request and mail them to the White House.
That is why Maine needs you, not from there but hoping someone like you takes on Illinois and win it back for the citizens who are not for all the crime taking place in our state, also for the rest of the blue states as well.
Maine voters deserve all the pain and suffering for voting in these out of touch Progressive Leftist Democrats.
I can’t understand why these Democrat governors don’t know what is happening, or why they don’t care! Are all blue states like this? Do red states have this problem, too? I feel blessed to live in a rural area (although in a blue state), but I wonder when the scourge will come here.
Jonathan S. is totally drinking the demoncrate Kool aid.