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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Victoria Schalk, 22, left, and Melinda Blais, 27, right, share a traditional Somali meal with college classmate Nasteho Issa, 21, at restaurant and market opened by one of the first Somali families who settled in 2001 in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The population had plummeted in 2001 as the paper mills closed. Downtown storefronts sat boarded up, ringed by sagging apartment buildings no longer needed to house workers since so few remained. The refugees saw possibility in Lewiston's decay. Word spread quickly and friends and families followed, by the hundreds. The town morphed in a matter of months into a laboratory for what happens when demographics and culture suddenly shift. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Ardo Mohamed, of Somalia, places a freshly-cooked Sambusa in a display case in her store in Lewiston, Maine, Friday, March 17, 2017. Mohamed came to Lewiston in 2001, among the first immigrant families. She fled Mogadishu in the 1990s, when militiamen burst into the home she shared with her parents and nine siblings, and started shooting. She watched her father die, as the rest of the family ran into the woods to escape. They wound up in overcrowded refugee camps, separated for years, then Atlanta, then Lewiston. "We went from a big city to a small city, for our children to have a nice life," she said. "We wanted to be safe, just like you do." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-A woman wearing a khimar leaves after shopping at one of the many stores owned by Somali immigrants who have settled in Lewiston, Maine, Friday, March 17, 2017. In August 2016, candidate Donald Trump stood on a stage in Portland and singled out the Somali community as criminal. The police chief quickly refuted the charge as false, since crime has decreased in Lewiston after the refugees arrived, but it continues to linger in the minds of many. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Trump supporter Stephanie Rodrigue, 17, picks up one of the campaign signs she's collected in her room in Lewiston, Maine, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Although too young to vote, Rodrigue supported Trump, so much she bellowed his name at pep rallies, affixed a campaign sticker to her laptop and came to be called by her classmates "the mini-Trump." (AP Photo/David Goldman)