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BOSTON (WHDH) - Families spent the night at the safety-net shelter at the Melnea Cass Recreation Center for the first time Wednesday night, including migrant<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/why-roxbury-try-wellesley-critical-response-to-migrant-shelter-at-community-center/">Read More</a>
The state will begin to move migrant families, especially those sleeping overnight at Logan Airport, into a new overflow shelter at a Roxbury recreation center on Wednesday, acting quickly on a decision that surprised the community.
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The proposal has received pushback from some local residents who say that Roxbury is already burdened with its own set of problems due in large part to decades of disinvestment that went hand-in-hand with systemic racism.