Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey declares emergency over immigrants in shelters | Washington Examiner
By: anna-giaritelli (Washington Examiner)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
"Sanctuary" state Massachusetts is the latest to declare a state of emergency for its inability to respond to thousands of immigrants who have arrived after being released from federal custody at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"This is a national issue that demands a national response," Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) said during a press conference on Tuesday morning. "Today, I am declaring a state of emergency in Massachusetts."
Healey called on Washington to help Massachusetts because the state could not financially or logistically respond to the 20,000 immigrants living in state-funded shelters, hotels, dormitories, and other emergency facilities statewide — an 80% increase from a year ago.
"It's more families than our state has ever served, exponentially more than our state has ever served in our emergency assistance program," Healey said at the event 2,000 miles away from the southern tip of Texas and the border crisis epicenter.
"We're unable to move people from housing and shelter into permanent housing because of this, so instead, we've been expanding and continuing to look for housing and shelter opportunities, expanding shelter at a rapid pace, and it's unsustainable."
Massachusetts joins other localities, including New York City, Chicago, and Washington, that have grappled to respond to the number of immigrants released into their communities from the border under President Joe Biden. All are sanctuary zones that have refused to cooperate with U.S. government immigration policies.
In 2017, the state's top court ruled that state court officers do not have the authority to arrest or hold an illegal immigrant solely because he or she was named in a federal immigration request, effectively making the state a "sanctuary" zone.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, touted the state's sanctuary status when he flew a group of immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. Residents on the island erupted at the move, which DeSantis argued was hypocritical given the state's willingness to help immigrants despite their having entered the country unlawfully.
Since Biden took office, more than 2 million people who illegally came across the southern border have been released into the United States.The large majority make their travel arrangements to places across the country.
No Trump or fascist nonsense, memes must be on the topic
Article is LOCKED by author/seeder
Tags
Who is online
304 visitors
Open borders people mad when they have to share a tiny burden of the costs open borders create.
Long as they keep crossing the border, keep sending them to sanctuary places. After all they claim they want them.
It must really suck when you virtue signal some moronic bullshit then be expected to actually do something.
I just realized that with Massachusetts receiving illegals this does away with the liberal race baiting blathering that Gov Abbott and DeSantis are only sending illegals to cities / states with black leadership. Gov. Healey is White. But then again so is the Mayor of Martha's Vineyard.
Damn hypocrite!
Isn’t VP Harris in charge of this issue?
She's making a Venn diagram so they can study the issue.
Wellllllll she DID say that she loves Venn diagrams!
Yep, that's the one!
My ears are bleeding from listening to even that short video.
It looks like NYC's sanctuary city mayor Adams solved his sanctuary problem after whining for months. In addition to his prospect of taking over part of beautiful Central Park to house his illegal aliens in tents, he's now suddenly erecting tents on Randall's Island for 2,000 illegal alien men. These sports fields were previously used by thousands of NYC's children for sports activities.
It's great that Adams is building tent cities in the summer, but how is he going to keep his illegal aliens warm from October through early May?
Some illegals also have pretty good gigs in Adams' sanctuary NYC:
Healey can learn some lessons from Adams!