We’ve spent a lot of time talking about the travails of poor New York City, which is apparently collapsing under the weight of migrants that much, much smaller cities have had to endure for much longer.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has gotten less attention (apparently not having any leaders so loud of mouth as NYC’s mayor) but it appears that they too are victims of their own sanctuary-city/right-to-shelter policies. An article on ABCNews website today is titled, “Massachusetts is running out of shelter beds for families, including migrants from other states.”
Actually, considering that New York City alone reportedly has absorbed at least 110,000 illegal aliens in the past couple of years, the Mass. Commonwealth seems to have been a little chintzy in setting their legal limit on public shelters. Their capacity maxes out at 7,500 families, and yesterday the number of families currently domiciled offically reached 7,488.
Some of the families are housed in traditional public shelters, others in hotels and motels that have been rented out to the state for the emergency.
Like New York and other blue states, Massachusetts has a “right to shelter” law, which in a sane society should be for citzens only and not for the world’s migratory rabble. Under current conditions, however, illegal migrants are crowding out citizens.
The bottom line, as usual, is that the state’s executive needs taxpayers’ money. The lower house of the legislature has voted $250 million to the creation of more shelters. The Senate has the bill under debate. But $250 million will not be enough, nor will four times or ten times that, ultimately, not as long as migrants are allowed to come in and never leave.