Gov. Maura Healey does not have to go to the southern border to witness the illegal invasion of America.
All she has to do was go to Foxboro and try to book a hotel room for the iconic Army/Navy football game on Dec. 9 to be played at Gillette Stadium. There is no room at the inn, however.
Had she even made a reservation in advance, it would have been canceled since all the rooms at the Comfort Inn in Foxboro and other hotels near Gillette Stadium have been taken over by illegal immigrants her administration has sent there.
As reported by the Herald’s Joe Battenfeld, scores of service academy graduates, families and veterans are now scrambling to find hotel and motel rooms that were cancelled to make way for the illegal immigrants.
And the hotel operators love it because it is a financial bonanza for the hotel and motel operators. The state (taxpayer) is paying jacked up prices to house the immigrants and there is no set date for them to leave.
It’s a wonder Healey did not provide the immigrants with free tickets to the game, since everything else they receive in benefits is free.
It is the first time the almost shrine-like nationally televised game will be played in New England. Given the rude reception Army and Navy fans and families are receiving, it may be the last time , too.
Tourists coming to Massachusetts for the fall had also better check their reservations or they may be sleeping in their cars,
It is one thing for the Healey administration to provide aid to the homeless under the state’s 40-year-old “right to shelter” law. It is another thing to push U.S. citizens aside in doing so.
Healey needs to get a handle on what illegal immigration is doing to her administration — and to the people and the state — or it will soon do her in because what is happening is unsustainable. It is all people are talking about.
While it currently costs taxpayers $45 million a month to pay for the influx of illegal immigrants, that is a pittance compared to what the real costs will be unless Healey changes policy.
She, like Joe Biden, has an open borders policy. And she just filed legislation asking the Legislature for an additional $250 million to help pay for it.
Healey, like the rest of the Democrats running big states or big cities can beg Joe Biden for significant financial relief all they want, but they will not get it.
That is because for Biden to provide aid for them to deal with the crisis is an admission that there is an illegal immigration crisis in the first place. To admit that he would also have to admit that he caused the crisis when he thrashed all existing secure border policies and waved in some six or seven million mostly unvetted immigrants into the country.
Now, even as he has resumed building Trump’s border wall—something he vowed he would never do—he still denies that a crisis exists. It is too little too late
So, Healey is on her own.
Yet Healey, like follow Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Boston, probably still believes the border is secure. That is what Pressley said to CNN host Jake Tapper last weekend. Tapper was so astonished he had Pressley repeat what she said.
Anyway, if Healey and Pressley won’t go to Foxboro, they surely won’t go to Eagle Pass.
One thing Healey could do to curtail the flow of immigrants from around the world flocking into Massachusetts is to suspend or amend the so-called “right to shelter” law.
Properly interpreted the law, passed 40 years ago, was designed to provide shelter for homeless families that were Massachusetts citizens and not for illegal immigrant families from around the planet.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul, both Democrats, are pushing to suspend New York City’s similar old “right to shelter” mandate that was aimed at providing shelter for the city’s homeless, not for of illegal immigrant families that Biden let into the country.
Healey can talk all she wants about windmills and climate change, but all the people are talking about is illegal immigrants and their impact on their communities.
It would also help if Healey were more transparent and accountable when it comes to the immigrant homeless crisis.
Hundreds, now thousands, of Illegal immigrant families are quietly dumped into motels and hotels in unsuspecting communities while people and local officials are kept in the dark.
And when they are reported on, like in Foxboro, Healey is “distressed.”
She should be. She sent them.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
