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https://nypost.com/2023/09/03/massachusetts-calls-up-national-guard-to- cope-with-migrants-as-protests-rage/

Massachusetts officials overwhelmed by arriving migrants have activated
the national guard as they scramble for more housing, while aid groups say
they have been pushed to the limit and protests abound.

Gov. Maura Healey mobilized 250 members of the Massachusetts National
Guard on Thursday to help transport the latest wave of asylum seekers to shelters across the state.

But much like the crisis overtaking the Big Apple, Massachusetts has
nowhere near enough housing or resources currently available to
accommodate the influx.

“Right now, the non-profits that are in Massachusetts are stretched and so
thin they cannot provide anymore staff,” state Sen. Jamie Eldridge told
CBS News.

While the National Guard can help with the lack of manpower, the state can
do little to address the shortage of housing outside of creating new
shelters, which local residents vehemently oppose.

Dozens of protesters came out Saturday to the Yarmouth Resort motel, where
the state hopes to set aside 100 units for migrant families, many of whom include Haitian immigrants displaced by natural disasters.

The protesters claimed that the state has prioritized the need of the
migrants over the need of its own homeless residents, including veterans,
with many at the rally flashing signs that read, “Vets and Cape Homeless First!!”

The hotel in Yarmouth is just one of more than 1,500 temporary hotels and
new shelters set up across the state since 2022.

The state’s Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities said in a statement, “The administration is exploring all options to expand family shelter capacity to meet rising demand.”

All together, there are about 6,000 families, or more than 20,000 people, currently residing in state shelters, officials estimate.

The situation in Massachusetts is mirroring the year-long struggle in New
York City to house the tens of thousands of migrants that have arrived
there.

Last week, at least 400 people gathered in Staten Island to protest the transformation of a shuttered Catholic school into a 300-bed makeshift
shelter.

Over the past year, more than 104,000 migrants from the US border have
been shipped to the five boroughs, and nearly 56,000 are now being housed
by the city.

The unprecedented influx spilled out onto the streets of Manhattan last
month as scores of migrants were forced to sleep outside the Roosevelt
Hotel in Midtown, which was set up as a processing center.

Hugh G Rection
7 hours ago

A couple weeks ago I was visiting with a Massachusetts resident, woke as
can be.

Went into an uproar when I voiced my opinion that isn't very woke.

Mass. deserves this.

Call me Fred
6 hours ago

The problem is that the border invasion isn't slowing down a bit. They
kick out the homeless American vets and families and still it's not nearly enough. They build tent cities and it's still not enough. School starts
in a few days and there can't possibly be enough teachers available who
speak the myriad languages and dialects how are they expecting to teach
them all? Many of them never went to school before and they have to start
from square one. What an unholy mess!

spice weasel
7 hours ago

"Massachusetts has nowhere near enough housing or resources currently
available to accommodate the influx"

our country has nowhere near enough housing or resources currently
available to accommodate the influx.

there, fixed it for you.


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