Governor sends troops as illegal immigrants surge into state.
Massachusetts National Guard Deployed to Deal with Illegal Immigrant Shelters
Members of the National Guard were officially deployed by the governor in “rapid response teams” on Wednesday to deal with illegal immigrant shelters.
Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll told reporters Tuesday that some 250 National Guard members will be deployed at motels and hotels, giving medical access, transportation, and meals to the illegal aliens.
“The plan that we have in place today with the deployment of the National Guard, which happened just last month, will put National Guard staff, soldiers, in locations as part of a response to our non-service providers, essentially creating rapid response teams in places that we don’t have the ground service contractors or case management services happening on a regular basis,” she said.
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Mrs. Driscoll told WFXT-TV in Boston that she told the state’s government advisory commission that some 20 and 35 families are seeking shelter each day in Massachusetts. That creates “an immediate need to try and find spaces,” she stated, adding, “All of our typical emergency shelter sites were filled a month ago.”
It came weeks after Democrat Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency due to the illegal immigrant-triggered strain on the state’s shelter system. The governor also called for more funding from the federal government.
“Massachusetts is in a state of emergency,” she said in statement at the time. “We’re grateful to the National Guard for stepping up to help us ensure that families in need have access to basic services like food, transportation, medical care, and education.”
Around the same time, Mrs. Healey sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and asked his agency to deal with a “confusing tangle of immigration laws, an inability for migrants to obtain work authorization from the federal government, an increase in the number of people coming to Massachusetts, and the lack of an affordable housing supply in our state.”
Reports have indicated that some 6,000 families are staying in emergency shelters across the state, located thousands of miles from the U.S.–Mexico border. A significant number of the illegal migrants are from Haiti.
In recent weeks, a number of Democrat-run states and cities have been forced to grapple with a recent influx of illegal immigrants who came across the U.S.–Mexico border.
Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, spoke at a town hall event in Manhattan about the crisis.
“Let me tell you something New Yorkers: Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this. I don’t see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City, destroy New York City. We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month,” Mr. Adams said, according to video footage of the event.
Elaborating on the issue, the mayor said that “one time we were just getting Venezuela, now we’re getting Ecuador, now we’re getting Russian-speaking coming through Mexico, now we’re getting western Africa, now we’re getting people from all over the globe.”
According to federal data, illegal border crossings fell sharply after the Biden administration introduced new restrictions in May. However, the numbers are again rising, the data show. Preliminary data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed that August was the busiest month ever for apprehensions for migrant families crossing the border with children from Mexico.
Families with children now account for about half of arrests of people crossing the border illegally from Mexico, with more than 91,000 arrests in August, the agency told The Associated Press last month.
That’s dramatically up from the 60,161 arrests in July and 39,305 in
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