The former prison in Norfolk, MA that the state has converted into housing for illegal immigrants is now receiving its first residents. Locals made their objections known right up to the end, but it didn’t matter because the property is owned by the state.
Norfolk is about to see a significant increase in population.
CBS News reports:
First migrant families move into emergency shelter at old Massachusetts prison, despite protestThe first migrant families have moved into an emergency shelter at the old Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk, Massachusetts.This is the state’s latest attempt to ease the migrant crisis in Massachusetts, but the move has divided the town. Residents are worried it will strain Norfolk’s resources and add pressure to the school system.Norfolk, a town of about 11,000 residents, has one ambulance, one gas station and no grocery stores.On Wednesday, the state said more than 20 families had been moved into the shelter and that up to 450 people would live in the former minimum-security prison. That would include about 150 school-aged children who would need a seat in a Norfolk classroom.Benjamin Sprague has two children in Norfolk’s schools. He showed up to a rally in the center of town on Wednesday. “It’s like Boston getting 25,000 people, that’s a four-and-a-half percent population increase overnight,” he told WBZ-TV. “There is no music room anymore. They have to do music inside the classroom, so how are they going to adjust to have that many children enter into the school system and not have an impact on everything else.”
At the same time, Logan Airport in Boston, which has begun to resemble a refugee camp in recent months, is about to be cleared out. Many of these people will be relocated to Norfolk.
FOX News reports:
Migrants to be booted from Logan Airport, governor says sanctuary state is fullMigrants sleeping on the floors of Boston’s Logan International Airport will soon be banned from doing so and Massachusetts officials are telling migrants currently at the southern border that its shelter system is out of space.More than 100 migrants have been using the facility as a shelter — lining the floors of Boston’s main air hub with makeshift beds and air mattresses — but they will be prohibited from doing so from July 9 and instead be offered free tax-payer-funded accommodation at a former minimum-security dorm-like facility in Norfolk, Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday…The migrants will also be offered transfers to other new “safety-net” sites, the Healey administration said. “The administration has worked diligently in recent months to increase the number of families leaving shelter into more stable housing,” the state’s emergency assistance director, Scott Rice, said in a statement.
Governor Healey is finally trying to stem the flow of people, way too late.
From the Daily Caller:
‘Sanctuary’ State Governor Tells Illegal Immigrants Not To Come: ‘Lack Of Shelter Space’The governor of Massachusetts deployed state officials to border communities to warn illegal immigrants not to go to her state because the migrant shelters are already full, according to a report from Politico.Democratic Gov. Maura Healey is sending five state officials to several Texas communities from Sunday through Wednesday to inform non-governmental immigration organizations and other border officials that her state’s emergency system is too overwhelmed and cannot accept any more migrant families, according to Politico. The actions come despite state and local policies that largely qualify Massachusetts as a “sanctuary” jurisdiction.“This trip is an important opportunity to meet with families arriving in the U.S. and the organizations that work with them at the border to make sure they have accurate information about the lack of shelter space in Massachusetts,” L. Scott Rice, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general the governor chose to lead the shelter system, stated to Politico.
I do not expect Massachusetts to go red in November, but I am looking forward to seeing how this issue changes voting in certain towns, like Norfolk, if at all.
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