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Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey claims
President Biden’s border policy is a catastrophe. File Photo
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Massachusetts governor Maura Healey is the latest politician to wake up to the reality that President Biden’s open border policy is a catastrophe as she called a State of Emergency in an attempt to halt the migrant flow and get money from Washington.
“To our partners in the federal government, Massachusetts has stepped up to address what sadly has been a federal crisis of inaction that is many years in the making,” Healey said in a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. The face of Biden’s failed immigration policy, the secretary has repeatedly denied there is a crisis at the border.
Massachusetts currently has about 5,600 families in shelters, an increase over last year’s 3,100, with another 1,800 housed in hotels and motels. The state’s hypocrisy was revealed last summer when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis bussed 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vinyard, location of former President Obama’s oceanfront mansion. The foreigners were quickly rounded up and impounded at a military compound as the nation ridiculed the state’s two-faced stance.
Healey attributed the emergency situation to “a confusing tangle of immigration laws” and “the lack of an affordable housing supply.” Massachusetts is the only state with a “right to shelter” law, which requires officials to provide the homeless with immediate housing.
Another area with a legal responsibility to house the migrants is New York City, where its mayor, Eric Adams, has run out of room, forcing him to take drastic measures such as putting up the new arrivals in tent cities, cruise ship terminals, parks, airport buildings, the parking lot of a state psychiatric hospital, and a police academy building, among other locations. Working with Gov. Kathy Hochul, he’s eying school buildings not in use for the summer, college dorm rooms, and lodgings in the suburbs, which has him suing local officials against the idea. More than 50% of the Big Apple’s hotel rooms are occupied by the homeless. Hochul has yet to call a State of Emergency even in light of Adams declaring that the migrant flood will cost taxpayers more than $12 billion over the next two years.