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Community support has pulled through to help settle Afghan refugees in Maine. Expecting, over an eight-month period, to receive refugees taken out of Afghanistan within days of the U.S. military withdrawal, “we had 100 arrive in eight weeks,” according to one employee with Maine’s Immigrant & Refugee Services.