Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D) declared a state of emergency on Tuesday over a surge of migrants.
According to Fox News, Healey announced that a state of emergency exists “due to rapid and unabating increases in the number of families with children and pregnant people — many of them newly arriving migrants and refugees — living within the state but without the means to secure safe shelter in our communities.”
The state says there are nearly 5,600 families or more than 20,000 people in the state shelter system. Healey said there are numerous contributing factors including “federal policies on immigration and work authorization” as well as lack of affordable housing and the end of COVID-era programs. Gov. Healey says costs are hitting $45 million a month on programs.
Healey called on Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas to pressure Congress and use executive action to remove barriers on work permits for migrants.
“Many of these families are migrants to Massachusetts, drawn here because we are and proudly have been a beacon to those in need,” she writes in a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
She also blames “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.”
The Massachusetts Governor becomes the latest Democrat lawmaker to sound the alarm over the impact of Biden's open border on their community.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has also declared a state of emergency and requested federal funds to address the ongoing crisis this year.
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But if \ border governors declare a state of emergency they are RACIST.
If Governor Maura Healey is having problems with the influx of all the migrants, refugees, and pregnant people, just wait until ILLEGAL ALIENS and pregnant WOMEN start pouring in with the rest of them. She’s REALLY going to be in a world of hurt!!!
Being woke must suck. I’m sure glad I’m not.
MA seeded this years ago by being Sanctuary city etc