Outrage as Massachusetts Dem' governor closes cherished sports center in majority-black Boston suburb for FOUR MONTHS so it can be used to house migrants | Daily Mail Online
By: Dominic Yeatman (Mail Online)
Virtue signaling gone bad.
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A deprived Boston community has been left 'on fire' after the governor of Massachusetts requisitioned a vital rec center to house the surge of migrants arriving in the city.
Democrat Maura Healey was accused of treating the Roxbury neighborhood 'like garbage' after she locked residents out of the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex with less than 48 hours notice.
She insisted it was needed to house the new arrivals, dozens of whom have been sleeping rough in the city's airport for months.
But residents in the majority-black neighborhood demanded she explain why their cherished facilities had been chosen to take the hit.
'You're really putting us in a bad, bad situation,' resident Rodney Singleton told her at a public meeting, 'and it's not fair.'
Democrat governor Maura Healey blamed Congress and the White House for her decision to requisition the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex
The neglected facility will receive a makeover worth $500,000 to make it fit for the 125 families that are expected to move in State Senator Liz Miranda told the Boston Globe.
'The outrage you're seeing is valid. Roxbury has never gotten its fair share out of the city and the state,' she added.
'I'm hoping West Roxbury steps up, I'm hoping Wellesley steps up, other communities that have rich resources.'
Massachusetts' shelters reached capacity in November, with 7,500 families in its system. Some are now being housed in hospital waiting rooms and church halls.
Migrants are expected to start moving in on Wednesday to the Roxbury site as it becomes the state's fourth 'safety-net site' for those waiting for a place in Massachusetts' emergency shelter system.
But it is also home to community sports groups providing a precious outlet for vulnerable youngsters.
'It's the long-term effect that we're concerned about,' said Domingos DaRosa of the Boston Bengals youth athletic organization.
'Reengaging these kids might not be as easy as 1-2-3.'
Said Hassan Ahmed, of Boston United Track and Cross Country said the decision had left his program instantly 'homeless'.
The center in Roxbury is home to more than a dozen programs as well as community groups
'We come in, and folks at the front desk were like, 'Just to let you know, today's your last day', he said. 'We were told that our permit was revoked and we were out.'
State officials have predicted the migrant crisis could cost Massachusetts $915 million this year and Healey has asked for an additional $250 million in Federal funds.
The state's shelter system reached capacity in November as it fell victim to the flow of people at the southern border.
The scenes in Boston's airport replicate those in Chicago's O'Hare where 216 migrants were sleeping at the start of January.
Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, has since 2022 been sending busloads of migrants from his state north, to make Democrat mayors and governors share his struggle - and to put pressure on Joe Biden.
'We need DC to act. We need Congress to act,' Healey said at a press conference last week.
'The path is there in terms of what needs to be done to fix the border situation, to fix some of the asylum processes and to get much needed funding to some of the interior states who have had to shoulder the burden for a problem that is geopolitical and is not the state's making.'
Dozens of migrants have been sleeping rough at the city's Boston Logan Airport
Healey promised the rec center, which boasts a popular pool and a 24,000-square-foot indoor field house would reopen to the public by June.
'The fact that they can't tell us today that they have alternate sites for the programs they displaced is just despicable to me,' said former state Senator Dianne Wilkerson said.
'It's inexplicable. It should not be acceptable on any level.'
'I don't know what we're going to do for a couple, three months. I'll call universities, I'll call other places,' Healey told residents at a community forum on Monday night.
'Rich communities won't get this,' one resident told her, 'It's disrespectful.'
'Roxbury is on fire! On fire! And this is a wake-up call,' Derrick Evans, added.
'So there's no plan for the kids in Roxbury?' another resident demanded.
'The state is taking care of the migrants, so who's taking care of the kids in Roxbury?'
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Guess there is not another place suitable???
There is but it's in a majority white suburb so...
I think, though, that if given enough time to allow enough illegals in, the goal is that eventually they will be. We'll all be equally poor and equally dependent on the state, except the rich Dems and Repubs.
Gee, just when sanctuary policies don't work out as envisioned..................wonder why the woke folks didn't plan for all contingencies, knowing what was going on at the border the last 3 years.
Roxbury residents are starting to learn what identity politics has in store for them. Numbers = power and resources.
I wonder why Roxbury folks don't want to share with their poor cousins from the South.
Democrats doing Democrat things. Putting illegals over the people they are supposed to be representing. Nothing new.
Democrats are beginning to rub SALT in open wounds. The citizens in the Roxbury community couldn't get government funds to maintain the facility. Now the state is dumping a boat load of money to revitalize the facility for illegal non-citizens. And those illegals can't even vote (supposedly). It seems liberals have screwed up the economy so badly that now there aren't enough rich people in Massachusetts to pay for it so Gov. Healey has to beg for Federal money.
Affirmative action, it seems, now has a Latin beat. Hispanics don't burn cities; at least not yet. So, BLM has created a new disadvantage for the perpetually disadvantaged. Obviously the perpetually disadvantaged needs to march through Boston and loot a few Mom & Pop businesses.
The question is who will the citizens vote for the next election?
Common sense would tell us that they wouldn't vote for somebody who puts them second. But it seems common sense is a super power.
Why do people continue to vote against their own interests?
Ignorance, Stupidity, Gullible, etc. It's a long list.
Interior states? Does she think border states are responsible for the increased influx of illegal immigrants to this country? Why isn't she call for federal money for them. She has 1/100 of the problems they do with illegal immigrants.
She needs to tell Brandon to secure the southern border and enforce our immigration laws to the letter. He doesn't need permission from Congress to do that.
I really like it when the sanctuary Democrats start crying for help from Biden.
Shows the rest of the country how messed up his policies are--and their own.
He didn't need permission of Congress to stop construction at the border.
Can you show me where the traitorous piece of crap got permission from Congress to write off billions in student loan debt? his supporters really can't be this stupid? can they?
Please don't challenge anyone like that.
Oh and we can't forget that it was done against SCOTUS ruling.
She is obviously a racist.
Why again are we footing the bills for immigrants, especially at the expense of taxpaying American citizens?