Posted on 06/19/2025 9:03:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To be honest, I for one am completely underwhelmed by the “largest deportation operation in American history.” Wake me up when we start deporting more illegals than Obummer and Crooked Joe, but, here’s a tip for ICE: Start at the shelters and hotels of Massachusetts.
A new item out at Fox News reveals that state governor Maura Healey’s administration is on-track to spend more than one billion dollars on its “Emergency Assistance” program, which largely services illegal migrants, just in Fiscal Year 2025. Here’s the story:
Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has already spent $830 million so far in FY25 – which started on July 1 – accommodating more than 4,000 families who have been receiving taxpayer-funded shelter, food, education, legal aid and case management.
The costs work out at about $3,496 per week per family, or around $1,000 per person per week for the program, known as the Emergency Assistance (EA) system.
The report only identifies 1,600 of the 4,000 families being migrants, but considering that the state categorizes illegal aliens as “Massachusetts residents” for the sake of eligibility, there’s no doubt that number is way off. Consider this, from an article at NBC:
Fueled by the highest immigration levels in decades, Massachusetts saw its largest population increase in 60 years between 2023 and 2024, according to Census data. Between July 1, 2023 and July 1, 2024, the state’s population increased 69,603 from 7,066,568 to 7,136,171 – a increase of just under 1% (0.985%).
As a reader/contributor pointed out: If Massachusetts has that much money to throw around, they don’t need any federal funding—finally! Harvard can stop whining about Donald Trump and go right to Healey’s office.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
True governor of Masshole population.
MA has chosen to coddle immigrants instead of their own citizens. The Federal Government should not reimburse them one thin dime for this. This is their decision, their trade off.
$830 M divided by 4,000 ‘families’==$207,500 PER YEAR!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE H ??????
ARE THEY TELLING THE MASS TAXPAYERS ABOUT THIS?????
Is MA for Maine or Massachussetts?
These hard working people are a net positive to the US economy and life. Diversity is our strength. Homeless people have nowhere to go, that is why we don’t enforce living on the streets. We allow open air drinking, drugs, and prostitution, because people are hurting.
Just some hypocritical things government allows in our modern day.
"MA governor Oppressed MA taxpayers are on-track to spend more than $1 billion in FY2025 on ‘emergency shelter’ program that largely serves illegal migrants"
There! Fixed it.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
If majority MA state taxpayers do not want to support illegal immigrants, then ALL patriots in the nation need to primary their beloved celebrity career crook federal lawmakers in 2026 and support Trump47 with a new Congress that will make sure that MA gets its constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government. (ALL senators could theoretically have been replaced twice+ by now since Obama's first midterm elections. But patriot voters have been asleep at the wheel.)
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
After all, it wouldn't be surprising if ALL taxpayers in the country are arguably supporting MA illegals with unconstitutional federal taxes facilitated by deep state Congress's ongoing abuse of its 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes).
The 16th Amendment has not only weakened our 4th Amendment protections imo, but is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime (imo), and desperately needs to be repealed along with the 17th Amendment, popular voting for federal senators.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spend is stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, although healthcare is certainly on the short list of top priorities.
"16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
(Again) "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
(Again) The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
GREAT, Collect them all in one place for deportation...
If you sneak into the US, you are entitled to ?????
No sympathy for blue state voters that keep electing and
re-electing Democrat losers,both governors and mayors, that continue to drive their state into the dung pile.
They voted for it
Money laundering. Rats can’t raise a dime. DNC is in the poor house. Illegals are the new ‘shovel ready’ scam.
Boston and Massachusetts has been a “migrant” magnet for decades. Mostly Catholic ones (Haitians, Central Americans) due to the Catholic infrastructure set up by the Irish. Brazilians been there for a long time, hooking into the long time Portuguese and Cape Verde populations.
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Portuguese men first arrived in Massachusetts through the American whaling industry. In the early 19th century, American whaling ships regularly stopped at the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the mid-Atlantic, to resupply and recruit crew members. Many young Azorean men—mostly farmers and fishermen facing overpopulation and limited opportunities at home—joined these ships as sailors.
The first significant wave of Portuguese immigrants to Massachusetts settled in whaling ports such as New Bedford, which became the leading whaling port in the United States after 1830. These Azorean crewmen began arriving in New Bedford prior to the Civil War and, after completing voyages, often remained in the area, bringing their families to join them. Over time, the Portuguese community expanded to other coastal towns in southeastern Massachusetts, including Provincetown, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard, as well as to the Boston area.
The strong connection between Portuguese immigrants and the whaling industry helped shape the cultural and economic landscape of these communities, with New Bedford becoming known as the “Portuguese capital of the United States” due to its large and influential Portuguese population.
Massachusetts yikes...glad we moved ping
It will be mostly peaceful.
Amazing how much hurt lazy people absorb. Keep going.
They need to have a barn raising and save money?.
What about the innocents who didn’t vote rat?
It’s hard to believe she has a Billion to hand out. Where does she get the money?
There. Fixed that for ya. =;^)
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