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Here's when migrant, homeless families will no longer be able to live at Boston's Logan Airport

Here's when migrant, homeless families will no longer be able to live at Boston's Logan Airport
THEY ALL GO? PETER? WELL, THE GOVERNOR HOPES THEY GO INTO A NEWLY OPENED EMERGENCY SHELTER, AND SHE ALSO SAYS THAT THE NUMBER OF MIGRANTS ARE ARRIVING HERE EVERY DAY HAS DECLINED. BUT BEYOND THAT, IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT EXACTLY WILL HAPPEN. DOZENS OF FAMILIES RIGHT NOW PREPARING TO SPEND THE NIGHT SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR IN TERMINAL E AT LOGAN AIRPORT. IT’S BECOME A COMMON SIGHT OVER THE PAST YEAR, BUT GOVERNOR MAURA HEALEY ANNOUNCING TODAY THAT’S COMING TO AN END FROM THE BEGINNING, WE’VE NEVER THOUGHT THAT LOGAN WAS AN APPROPRIATE PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO BE STAYING OVERNIGHT. STARTING JULY NINTH, SLEEPING OVERNIGHT AT LOGAN WILL BE PROHIBITED. IT COMES ON THE HEELS OF THE STATE OPENING THIS NEW EMERGENCY SHELTER AT THE OLD BAY STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN NORFOLK, WHICH CAN HOUSE 140 FAMILIES. MASSACHUSETTS IS THE ONLY STATE IN THE UNION WITH A RIGHT TO SHELTER LAW. BUT LAST WEEK, STATE OFFICIALS TRAVELED TO THE BORDER, COMMUNICATING. THERE’S NO MORE SPACE. WE CAN’T HANDLE THIS CAPACITY IN MASSACHUSETTS. WE’VE BEEN BEARING A DISPROPORTIONATE BURDEN. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT MASSACHUSETTS IS NO LONGER THE PLACE THAT SHOULD BE GIVING SHELTER TO EVERYONE, AS WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE IN OUR STATE. GLADYS VEGA IS WITH THE NONPROFIT LA COLABORATIVA IN CHELSEA AND IS SPREADING THE WORD IN HER COMMUNITY FOR FAMILIES NOT TO COME HERE. SHE’S NOT SURPRISED BY THE ANNOUNCEMENT AT THE AIRPORT AND PRAISING THE COMMONWEALTH FOR GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT OTHER STATES HAVE. THIS IS A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. WE SHOULD NOT BE THE ONES TAKING THE LEAD. THIS SHOULD BE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS. NOW, THE GOVERNOR ALSO SAYS NEARLY 4000 MIGRANTS HAVE RECEIVED WORK WORK PERMITS AND 2 TO 300 FAMILIES ARE LEAVING THE SHELTER SYSTEM. EVERY SINGLE MONTH. BUT VEGA SAYS WITHOUT THE AIRPORT AND MAY FALL ON CHURCHES AND NONPROFITS TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF THIS MIGRANT CRISIS. GOING FORWARD, WE’LL LIVE AT THE AIRPORT TO
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Here's when migrant, homeless families will no longer be able to live at Boston's Logan Airport
Families who have arrived in the U.S. from other countries have been staying there for months with nowhere else to go.

Families who have arrived in the U.S. from other countries have been staying there for months with nowhere else to go.

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