ORONO, Maine, Oct. 16 -- University of Maine issued the following news release:
Johanna Bard Richlin, University of Maine
In October 2024, right before the presidential election, I had coffee with Kim, a Congolese asylum-seeker living in southern Maine. Our conversation quickly turned to politics, and I cautiously asked about her views, although she could not vote.
During his campaign, Donald Trump had vowed mass deportations, and I assumed immigration policies would be among her top priorities.
But instead, she quickly turned to matters of faith, invoking her strongly held beliefs. Kim - a pseudonym, like all names used in this article - was an evangelical Christian whose life revolved around her church: a nondenominational congregati...