Posted on 08/08/2023 11:36:30 AM PDT by DFG
"Sanctuary" state Massachusetts is the latest to declare a state of emergency over its inability to handle thousands of immigrants who have arrived after being released from federal custody at the United States-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 people living in state-funded shelters, hotels, dormitories, and other emergency facilities statewide — an 80% increase from a year ago. The state's 1983 "right to shelter" law maintains that any family, regardless of immigration status, is guaranteed immediate state-provided housing.
"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."
Healey said the state had tried to address this worsening issue at the federal level and pushed the Biden administration for assistance to no avail. She also complained that the federal process to obtain work documents took too long and left immigrants unemployable.
Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll spoke and pleaded with the public to take in immigrant families.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Feeling blue, blue,blue blue,blue................
Embrace the Suck.
FU.
Next stop on the Abbott express...keep sending them
No kidding! Where has that governor been?
Ah send them to NYC
Oh, IS it now?
To ultimately get rid of bad policy, it often has to be strictly enforced.
Typical leftists. They only notice a problem or start to “care” when it finally impacts their own lives.
‘Those smelly brown immigrants are supposed to be dealt with inside the smelly border states, aren’t they? We certainly can’t be having them HERE in OUR nice neighborhoods!’
and they still call them immigrants ,LOL
“....and left immigrants unemployable.”
I don’t think so.
Can’t we virtue signal this problem away?
Gov. Chucklehead...
SHE was the one to Famously say “it’s not illegal to be illegal in Mass”.
In other words:
They desperately need at least another 1 Million Illegal Aliens, there should be a bus load every 15 minutes to every Sanctuary City/State
I’d like to say “suck it Massachusetts” - but I know evil progs are planning to flood even my own small, open, conservative, middle-class, crime-free (and yes, white) town with migrants.
Biden and his woke idealogue masters are doing all they can to destroy America. That means ALL of us.
I’m afraid that the secret grand plan is for the Federal Government to bail all of the recipient states out.
Irony alert in the gov asking for federal aid. It was federal aid that brought his state to this precipice.
It's YOUR stupid sanctuary city policies that you REFUSE to at least adjust if not abolish.
It got out of control and you no longer have what you thought would be a democrat majority.
YOU screwed up and YOU are responsable to pay the wages, now.
WE will enact our coup at the ballot box and elect NO MORE DEMOCRATS.
We're DONE with you.
Eat, sleep and live in your own toilet.
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