The Boston Logan Airport is being overrun by illegal immigrants as the city struggles to find a place to shelter them.
More than 100 illegal immigrants have been sleeping on the floor of Boston’s international airport main hub. Dozens of makeshift beds and air mattresses have lined terminals as legal, paid travelers have to step around them to get to their gate.
A representative from MassPort told Boston 25 Local News that illegal aliens are arriving at the airport at all hours— a sharp rise in the number of immigrants sheltering at the airport in recent months.
“We continue to see migrants at the airport. They come to Logan a number of ways,” the representative said.
But without the proper staff or resources to properly take care of a large population of residents, the migrants are transported out of the airport to state welcome centers daily, then brought back by night, MassPort said. Migrants have been staying in the baggage area in Logan since last year after the state’s shelters reached their 7,500 family capacity in November, forcing people to sit on waitlists for the facilities to be housed at the airport. Via the New York Post.
The local news outlet attempts to cast sympathy on the illegal immigrants sheltering in the airport, noting that they have less-than-ideal conditions. The report states that undocumented aliens are forced to sleep on cold floors, looking up at the fluorescent lights all night as they are constantly awakened by announcements over the loudspeakers.
A recent report by CBS News found that Massachusetts taxpayers are forced to pay a $1 billion bill as illegal immigrants flood the state. Residents are having to pay over $64 per day to feed illegal immigrants living in the state. Vendors are charging $16 for breakfast, $17 for lunch, and $31 for dinner daily for each illegal alien.
The state has previously said that it is obliged to cater to the migrants because of its 1983 sanctuary city law which was passed to deal with the relatively small number of homeless families and pregnant women, although critics have said the law does not apply to migrants who are not U.S. citizens. The state's right to shelter law requires it to provide families with refrigeration and basic cooking facilities, but some of the accommodations do not have those appliances, leaving the state to contract out for food and delivery, CBS reports. Via Fox News Digital.
A February Suffolk University poll found that immigration and border security was the second-most important issue to voters— trailing closely behind “the future of American democracy.”
46.8 percent of respondents said that the U.S. border and the number of immigrants entering the country (legally or illegally is not specified) is an emergency, and among the most serious issues facing the U.S.
Another poll by the Fiscal Alliance Foundation revealed that 65.2 percent of respondents believe that Massachusetts cannot accommodate any more illegal aliens. 53.3 percent said that their tax dollars should not go toward shelters for the immigrants.
