Maine and other blue states face a twin monster – illegal immigration and pervasive, devastating drug trafficking. President Trump is doing all he can. We must, too.
Take Maine as a case in point. Illegal immigration in Maine is larger than most understand, often tied to drug activity. It can be legally, swiftly reversed, and must be.
Fact One: The Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated in March 2025 that the US has 18.6 million illegal aliens, an 11 percent jump since 2023. Pew Research says Maine had 5000 in 2021, based on voluntary reporting in the 2020 Census.
Fact Two: If illegal immigrant populations grew 11 percent every two years under Biden, and Maine’s 2020 number was 5000, Maine has roughly 6200 illegal aliens today.
Fact Three: That number is conservative, since even Maine Public suggests asylum seekers in Maine doubled from 2021 to 2023, may be rising at a similar rate now, a Democrat legislature pushing “sanctuary” status and non-cooperation with ICE.
Fact Four: While these numbers are high, rising, and unclear – the primary change in Maine’s immigration is illegality. Despite nine legal visa options, local jurisdictions like Portland harbor illegals, a city the Department of Homeland Security calls “sanctuary.”
Fact Five: As illegal immigration is encouraged, the character of Maine changes, and that is seen in a parallel trend: Democrat indifference not just to illegal immigration (and illegal voting), but to drug trafficking. In Maine, like illegals, traffickers thrive.
Fact Six: Maine, especially places like Portland, has become a “sanctuary” for foreign drug traffickers. Bluntly: The Dominican traffickers “own” Portland, are pushing their advantage in Lewiston, Bangor, Waterville, even spots like Fairfield, Windham, Rumford, Skowhegan, Farmington, and northern towns. Chinese illegals run hundreds of grow houses unchecked, launder fentanyl money, while Mexicans (Sinaloa cartel) widen their influence, the feds taking down 171 last week across New England.
Fact Seven: Both trends can be stopped cold with new leadership in Maine, a determined, well-equipped Governor, and a strong, Republican-led legislature. In an age of total mediocrity, it takes nothing to be great – just integrity, resolve, and hard work.
Fact Eight: Maine’s twin monsters, massive illegal immigration and pervasive drug trafficking, can be halted by reversing Democrats’ twisted, permissive, anti-safety policies, restoring authority, respect, and funding to State and local police.
Fact Nine: On the illegal immigration side, a comprehensive sweep of Maine for illegals, surges by ICE and DEA, apprehension, detention, and removal by expedited deportation, a new immigration court in Maine, private detention facilities, authority to search broadly, based on federal and state laws and executive orders, are in order.
Fact Ten: On the drug side, ramped up law enforcement, restored legal authorities, reprogramming of money, fresh appropriations, leveraging federal support, designating all counties “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas,” signing executive orders, and coordinating new state legislation – will reverse decades of reckless lawlessness.
Fact Eleven: Ramped up, well-funded, effective drug treatment programs, putting proven prevention back in schools, making mental health accessible, defunding Soros-DA’s, up-funding prosecutors, and helping parents, teachers, and civic leaders is key.
Bottom line: We can do more than survive, more than “better.” We can actually end this carnage, unchecked illegal immigration, and wide drug trafficking. Work with me, as a truth-telling, outcome-based Governor, to topple the twin monster, get Maine back.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, Maine attorney, ten-year naval intelligence officer (USNR), and 25-year businessman. He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (North Country Press, 2018), and “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024). He is the National Spokesman for AMAC. Today, he is running to be Maine’s next Governor (please visit BobbyforMaine.com to learn more)!
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