LePage Says Asylum Seekers Bring Diseases to Maine

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said that asylum seekers are the biggest problem for his state, MPBN News reports.

Said LePage: “Asylum seekers — I think the biggest problem in our state — and I’ll explain that to you… And what happens is you get hepatitis C, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, the ‘ziki fly’ [sic] all these other foreign type of diseases that find a way to our land.”