Posted on 02/20/2024 2:40:54 AM PST by Libloather
New documents show the rising public cost of sheltering migrants in Massachusetts, as the state grapples with a strain on its emergency shelter system.
The state has 17 contracts totaling $116 million to house migrant families through June, including a no-bid $10 million contract for a company providing meals, CBS News Boston reported, citing documents obtained by the outlet.
In some cases, the state is paying hotels $64 per person each day for meals, including $16 for breakfast, $17 for lunch and $31 for dinner.
Last August, Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey declared a state of emergency, saying the state had more than 20,000 migrants in its shelter system.
Capacity overruns have necessitated the use of hotels for emergency shelter, but earlier this month the state opened a new temporary facility with 400 beds in Boston's Melnea Cass Recreational Center.
It followed reports that migrants were being forced to sleep on cots at Logan Airport, underscoring the humanitarian crisis and strain on the state's resources.
Similar to New York, Massachusetts has a longstanding Right to Shelter law mandating that the state provide emergency shelter to families in desperate need.
The law requires emergency shelter to include basic cooking facilities, and if it does not, as in the case of some hotels, the state has to step in and contract for food to be delivered.
CBS affiliate WBZ found that one catering vendor, Spinelli Ravioli Manufacturing Company in East Boston, was awarded a $10 million six-month no-bid contract to provide and deliver meals.
'As an approved state vendor, Spinelli's was contacted at the onset of the crisis,' the company told WBZ.
'We are not the exclusive meal vendor and do not have a guaranteed contract, or financial agreement, beyond this initial emergency period,' the statement added.
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The people in MA voted for it big time, so it should be strictly enforced. They thought they knew more and knew better than the rest of us.
When the Plandemic started, most hotels were empty. In San Francisco, Kalifornia, they filled up many hotels, even the nicer ones, with homeless. Since so many of the homeless have mental health and/or substance abuse problems, San Francisco came with a plan only the mentally-handicapped Democrat politicians could devise. They delivered alcohol, and even drugs to the homeless in the hotels.
I don’t know about you, but I will never sleep in one of those beds. With the Plandemic fading, the Ruling Class had to fill up the hotels with some bodies, and the illegal trespassers fit the bill.
I can envision a future travel app that certifies individual hotel rooms with “transient/illegal trespassers free” classifications. There is already a matchmaking service for those of us without the vaxxine in our bodies. Clean, homeless-free hotels will not be far behind.
$65 a day?
I could eat on $65 for a whole month - and still go to Taco Bell and McDonald’s several times.
I can make it on rice and beans for most of the days.
Shoot, even a loaf of bread, baloney, mayo and chips - I can eat for a dozen days on about $12. There’s a sale on potato chips right now at WalMart. Could easily eat for $24 days on $25 or so.
Oops, $64/day. Sleepy time, LOL
In a fair world, yes indeed. But that was tried before, in September of 2022. The residents quickly called the governor, and the illegals were “voluntarily” removed. The excuse was that the extremely wealthy town didn’t have the resources to house any immigrants.
Would any reasonable citizen want to stay in a hotel that has housed illegal aliens given the possibility of exotic diseases, parasites et al? I would not.
There is no negotiation whatsoever for containing the costs of feeding and housing these “migrants”, of whom some 95% should not even be here at all. This runaway inflation of the costs of feeding and housing is part of a “Cloward-Piven” scheme to make the costs SO high, that only a strong centralized command-and-control regime can successfully contain them, by throwing all “dissidents” into a segregated facility, and giving each of such constrained individuals only the bare minimum to maintain existence.
This scheme is by no means original. It was tried in Germany between 1938 to 1945, where these segregated facilities were known as concentration camps. When they became too full, the final solution was applied, gassing the inmates with a poisonous compound that brought death quickly, then disposing of the bodies by incineration.
It was not only Jews who were liquidated by these means.
Daughter and I got 3 good dinners last week on a $2 bag of beans and a hambone left from Thanksgiving
Does that include the tip?
> Does that include the tip? <
Good question. But I’m more concerned about the project itself. It had better be green!
No plastic straws. No styrofoam. Food delivered using electric vehicles only. That sort of thing.
Socialism fails because there is not enough money in the world to make it work. Today we are seeing Democrat polictians using taxpayer money to support illegal aliens who by all rights should be deported as soon as they show up.
These cities and states do not have enough money to support these illegals and in truth the United States does not have enough money to support them so the question is what will give out first, the money or the government willing to go broke supporting a failed policy?
Now that’s the way to do it!
Lets be honest on the $16 for breakfast, $17 for lunch and $31 for dinner.
For the breakfast bag, there’s a 90-cent cheapo juice container, a banana, a no-name pastry, and a chocolate chip cookie....handed out by two Peruvian illegals getting $20 each for 4 hours of work. $8 profit on each bag.
The lunch? Bag of chips, an apple, a bologna sandwich, container of jello, a single marshmellow, and a cheapo box of rasins. $8 profit on each bag.
The dinner? A sub sandwich, peanut butter cup, a can of Dr Pepper, a plastic container with a thin slice of watermelon with a couple of grapes and a pear. $12 profit on each bag.
Well, throwing away the amounts of money wasted by this admin... I guess we can rule out a cure for cancer in my lifetime. Homelessness will continue and the veterans are f**k*d. What a shame.
Probably not too far off - except they probably pay less for the food and make even bigger profits.
Even today, restaurants get great prices on bulk items.
The buildings used for this will have to be condemned.
When people say $ to “border security”
Is the solution, just look at this article.
Everything but political will exists to secure the border
I suggest comprehensive law enforcement rather that comprehensive immigration reform is the solution
Any new legislation will not solve the problem, just send more money to support the invasion
64x30=1920 a month
in my budget that 4 months of groceries and eating out once a week.
We aren’t thinking big enough about their nefarious plans.
Nothing would please those insane libs more than a BILLION third worlders flooding into the USA. They don’t want anybody to have anything nice, most of all a nice safe, clean, beautiful, law-abiding and prosperous nation.
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