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Wealthy Boston residents rail against migrant shelter that will soon open up in their neighborhood: 'Forced down our throats'
The Blaze ^ | February 29, 2024 | Cortney Weil

Posted on 03/01/2024 12:06:20 PM PST by Twotone

Residents of a wealthy neighborhood in Boston expressed outrage at a recent community meeting after they learned that a new migrant shelter would soon open up nearby.

On Tuesday night, residents gathered to meet with General Scott Rice, the emergency assistance director for Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, to discuss their concerns about a temporary migrant shelter opening up in Fort Point, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the Seaport area of Boston.

The United Way of Massachusetts Bay is working with Healey's office to transform some Fort Point office space on Farnsworth Street, owned by the Unitarian Universalist Association, into a temporary shelter for approximately 80 immigrants.

But it seems nobody asked the locals whether they approved.

"I think there's a lot of angry residents who feel the same way I do that this was being forced on us," said resident Brian Curley.

Thomas Ready of the Fort Point Neighborhood Association expressed similar sentiments. "We will quickly pivot if in fact this is getting forced down our throats," Ready said. "...You have to give us a little bit of time to digest this because right now it doesn’t taste so good."

During the meeting, area residents shared many concerns about the shelter, including the risk it poses to their safety. "How are you going to ensure we're safe?" one woman asked at the meeting.

Rice replied that the state has already vetted the immigrants. "Our track record has been very good," he said.

Others noted that the office space has six bathrooms but no shower facilities, so immigrants will likely have to be bussed to and from the area YMCA every day so they can bathe. "This is ridiculous. This is a terrible location," one resident remarked.

Still others were frustrated that they seem to have been boxed out of the process. One man decried the lack of "compassion" from local and state leaders. An exasperated woman even wondered, "Why isn’t the governor here? How about we bus them to her house?"

Despite all their comments and concerns, Rice said that the new shelter "is going to happen." He then invited the Fort Point residents to help "make this work and work well" for everyone.

He didn't get much cooperation. "That sounds like complete bulls***," one person remarked.

Paul Craney of Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance told Blaze News that the shelter is likely to harm both neighborhood residents and immigrants. "There is nothing compassionate about housing migrants in facilities that are not equipped for human occupancy, even if it has an expensive zip code," he said. "Ultimately, the migrants will suffer, but so will the taxpayers who will have to pay for this never ending inadequate response by the Healey administration."

The shelter is expected to open within the next week or two and remain open for 90 days. After 90 days, officials will have the ability "to renew for another 90 days," a spokesperson for Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu said. No firm deadline for closing the shelter has been given.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bidenbordercrisis; boston; illegals; massachusetts; nimby; youvotedforit
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1 posted on 03/01/2024 12:06:20 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Vote Dem you get what you voted for.


2 posted on 03/01/2024 12:07:11 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Twotone
Well well well. Suddenly our virtue signaling betters don't like it when the illegals they ‘’stand with’’ are standing next to them.
3 posted on 03/01/2024 12:08:02 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Twotone

EMBRACE THE SUCK DEMOCRATS! YOU VOTED FOR IT YOU GIT IT! RIGHT WHERE IT HURTS THE MOST!..................................


4 posted on 03/01/2024 12:09:39 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Twotone

hmmm, nice they get a taste of their own medicine. Gay marriage, illegal immigration, transgender nonsense, war on energy - all forced on us by the left. Take your own medicine, good and hard.


5 posted on 03/01/2024 12:10:10 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: Twotone

This is excellent.

Welcome to “democracy” where garbage gets stuffed down your throat.


6 posted on 03/01/2024 12:10:11 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Twotone

NIMBY arseholes. Enjoy the suck.


7 posted on 03/01/2024 12:10:42 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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To: Twotone

Welcome to Texas, 15 years ago.


8 posted on 03/01/2024 12:10:52 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Jonny7797

....Tom Brady leaves and retires................


9 posted on 03/01/2024 12:11:00 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Fai Mao

Texas should send 10,000 more.


10 posted on 03/01/2024 12:13:38 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Twotone

Hey, wealthy home owners, NBC News says bringing illegals to your city greatly reduces the crime rate.

Welcome your new residents, as they will be stealing, raping, and killing you, with abandon, while never being arraigned on any of the charges.

Your reported crime rate will drop down to unbelievable levels, trust me.


11 posted on 03/01/2024 12:14:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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12 posted on 03/01/2024 12:14:14 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


13 posted on 03/01/2024 12:15:28 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Twotone; reasonisfaith
Wealthy Boston residents rail against migrant shelter that will soon open up in their neighborhood: 'Forced down our throats'

Not forced down your throats nearly so hard as you deserve to have them forced down your throats.

"Force the enemy to live up to his own book of rules."

14 posted on 03/01/2024 12:15:44 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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"I do feel that this was being forced on us"

...said resident Brian Curley.

Well, Brian, just how do you feel the people in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California feel? Or, for that matter, every other state where these millions of criminals are forced down our throats?

Brian is just another holier-than-thou liberal scumbag. Embrace the suck, Brian.

And a huge "Eff You" as well. You voted for and supported this destruction of our nation. You were probably among the first to complain about Trump's tweets and the border fence, too.

15 posted on 03/01/2024 12:15:53 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Don’t give a hairy rats @$$. We got more busses, we can send more you liberal POS


16 posted on 03/01/2024 12:17:35 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Twotone

“Welcome to the party, kids!” We have been putting up with this crap for years out here in the west. If you live in Arizona and own a Ford 250, it’s just a matter of time before it’s stolen from your driveway by Mexicans who will use it to make a few trips back and forth to Mexico to bring up Mexican “newcomer voters”. They steal the diesel for the trips from construction sites where their “cousins” work. After a few trips they just destroy the truck. My son got his Harley Davidson, Ford 250 stolen from his driveway one night. After destroying the truck with a few trips across the desert to pick up new RAT voters, they pushed it off into a canyon.


17 posted on 03/01/2024 12:17:41 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I know only one way to piss off the far-left RATSOs. Laugh at them.)
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To: Twotone

Enjoy your third world neighbors


18 posted on 03/01/2024 12:18:58 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Twotone

The elites are going to start feeling the effects of what they push on everyone else.


19 posted on 03/01/2024 12:19:15 PM PST by Starboard
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This makes me so insanely happy. Not only did they have no problem, they had a lot of moralizing sanctimony epithets, invective, speeches for us for our resistance. But things are oh so different when it’s happening to them. Who is going to go over there are preach to them about tolerance, we’re-all-descended-from-people-who-immigrated,-too, the willingness to share, to be generous to our fellow man, etc.?


20 posted on 03/01/2024 12:19:51 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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