Massachusetts authorities have announced that people will be barred from sleeping overnight on the floors of Boston’s Logan International Airport, where some 100 illegal immigrants have been staying in what amounts to a makeshift shelter.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey made the announcement in a June 28 press release, in which she said that a team of state officials had been dispatched to the southern border to notify border officials and NGOs that Massachusetts has run out of shelter space.
Illegal immigrants and homeless U.S. citizens will be barred from staying overnight at Logan Airport starting July 9, Ms. Healey stated.
Those who have been sleeping overnight at the airport and were on an emergency shelter waitlist will be offered accommodation at a former minimum-security correctional facility in Norfolk, per the release….