LOWELL The state’s Emergency Housing Assistance Program biweekly report of Feb. 12 shows that of the 7,506 families in the shelter system, a little more than half are families with children who entered the country as migrant, refugees or asylum seekers. Homeless families with children from the commonwealth comprise the approximately 3,700 remaining families.
Emergency assistance shelters in Massachusetts which has effectively been a sanctuary state since 2017 are overwhelmed by migrants. Rather than address the cause of the crisis, Democratic Gov. Maura Healey's administration is instead planning to spend more taxpayer money in hopes of temporar.