Massachusetts officials ask residents to lend a 'helping hand' and offer migrants 'an extra room' - A bunch of bleeding heart liberals are about to get forcibly redpilled by reality

Massachusetts declared state of emergency in response to a migrant housing shortage​

By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten | Fox News
Published August 9, 2023 9:06pm EDT

Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll asked state residents Wednesday to open their doors and assist housing migrants after the Democratic governor, Maura Healey, declared a state of emergency Tuesday as the state is faced with a vast shortage of shelters.

"Most importantly, if you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family. Housing and shelter is our most pressing need and become a sponsor family," Driscoll said.

Please consider hosting a family.​

— Massachusetts Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Driscoll's comments echoed Healey's statement Tuesday in calling on residents to "offer a helping hand."

"This is a national issue that demands a national response," Healey said during a press conference at the State House in Boston. "In the meantime, we’re simply asking the federal government to use the tools already available to give these brave parents a chance to work and support their families. At the same time, we’re calling on everyone in Massachusetts to come together, help us meet this moment in our state, and offer a helping hand."


A view of the Massachusetts State House, Boston. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, File)

Their calls for assistance from residents come after Healey announced that a state of emergency exists "due to rapid and unabated increases in the number of families with children and pregnant people — many of them newly arriving migrants and refugees — living within the state but without the means to secure safe shelter in our communities."

The state said there are nearly 5,600 families or more than 20,000 people in the state shelter system. Massachusetts is a right to shelter state, and must provide emergency housing to families in need.

Healey said there are numerous contributing factors to the migrant crisis, including "federal policies on immigration and work authorization" as well as a lack of affordable housing and the end of COVID-era programs.


More than a thousand migrants awaiting entry into the United States from Juarez, Mexico. (Fox News Digital / Jon Michael Raasch)

Healey said she hopes the emergency declaration will provide more federal funding, and expedite work permits for immigrants.

The governor's press office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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[LaxerBRO]

become a sponsor family,

Absolutely. Please send as many as you can. They just need to be deloused before entering my home.

 

[Absolutego]

I recommend the state government go around and staple a notice to the front door of every house with an "in THIS house, we believe no human is illegal, etc" sign out front that they're now queued up to receive a family of 'refugees', on account of the emergency.
Hell, the fallout if someone did that as a prank would be hilarious enough on its own. The amount of bougie progs who would start falling all over themselves rationalizing the hypocrisy would be amazing to behold.

 

[ロボ﹏§¤r﹏h¶rœ]

and pregnant people

Tells you all you need to know about these politicians.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Man, I wish thati liked popcorn, because the fallout from this should be great.

Hold on. The hell do you mean you don't like popcorn?

 

[clipartfan92]

In many cases, the state is paying much more than the average monthly rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Boston. The monthly tab for one room at the Days Hotel in Methuen in December was $6,355. For the Homewood Suites in Chelsea in August, $9,579. In March taxpayers paid $1.67 million for all of the rooms rented at the Homewood Suites in Chelsea alone.

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[Corpun]

I guess the Constitution doesn't say anything against housing foreigners in your homes. Hope some of these bleeding hearts get culturally enriched with this scheme.

 

[smartypants302]

Funny Martha Vineyard did not get the memo. They did not even allow them to stay on the island for a whole day before they were removed. I personal hope they ship more to that rich enclave.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

Part and parcel of living in a conquered nation.

 

[Duke Nukem]

They're only "bleeding hearts" until they gain some semblance of power and authority. Then they go full fascist on anyone who isn't just like them.

Still gonna be a laugh when they are forced to have a bunch of "undocumented" persons shoved into their posh suburban homes.

It'll be even funnier when said "migrants" clean out the whole house and sell all your overpriced furniture and housewares for a dime bag of fentanyl.

 

[Sexy Peach Emoji]

S

Hold on. The hell do you mean you don't like popcorn?

Some people don't like it.

 

[Snekposter]

Hold on. The hell do you mean you don't like popcorn?

I think it stinks. As in a literal foul aroma coming from it.

 

[The Big O]

Build a wall around the Route 128/I-495 Boston Beltway and contain the illegals before they spill out into the Southcoast, Cape Cod, Berkshires, etc.

And turn Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket into prison colonies patrolled by gunboats. Yes, contain the summer residents with the illegals there too.

I hate this state.

 

[Megaton Punch]

I think it stinks. As in a literal foul aroma coming from it.

I can see saying this about microwave popcorn, some of which is completely inedible, but even movie theater popcorn?

Damn, I didn't know there was a cilantro soap gene but for popcorn.

 

[Snekposter]

I can see saying this about microwave popcorn, some of which is completely inedible, but even movie theater popcorn?

That stuff gets drenched in fake butter by so many attendees, which smells even worse.

 

[Lokenstien]

I really don't understand the logic behind accepting poor homeless noncitizens into the country when we have an acknowledged, obvious and rampant problem with poor homeless citizens in the country. If we can not find shelter for our own, why is there an expectation to accept others? As the richest country on earth we surely have the ability to start combating our own poor and homeless crisis, why not fix that first and take our lessons from that to help the migrants latter.

It really boggles me, our beacons of commerce and prosperity suffer from hordes of unhoused people and yet somehow we're suppose to find room for forigen unhoused people? What are we suppose to do other than suffer more due to overcapacity?

 

[cybertoaster]

How many refugees are in your house right now driscoll? better be more than zero...

Especially if you own a large house.

The rich haven't and wont be affected by this.

 

[The Cheese Aisle]

I have said it before and I will say it again: this will become compulsory in the next 20 years. Especially if you own a large house.

We fought a Revolution to not Quarter soldiers. Now we will have to Quarter refugees.

“Yes officer, he was eating my homemade soup and just keeled over.”

El Comandante's Holy Shopping List:

>Several boxes of microwave popcorn. The top quality stuff. Do not buy at Wally Werld to be sure of quality.

This is gonna be fucking hilarious to the extreme. Mass cultural enrichment in the privacy of leftards' own homes. The resulting half-white/half-taconigger babies will be a problem later on though.

White Boston Metro women won’t fuck a migrant. They’re the type of liberal that goes so far left they bell curve back to racism. Dudes might fuck a Latina if she has a fat ass or something, though.

That stuff gets drenched in fake butter by so many attendees, which smells even worse.

Absolute slop. Stovetop popcorn with some melted butter is great. You can add things to it too, like Parmesan and herbs or garlic and truffle.

 

[Comandante Marcos]

Friendly reminder that the "butter" on microwave popcorn is made of toxic chemicals that poison the Mexicans who manufacture it. That long suppressed fact just popped (heh) back into my brain. El Comandante will leave the microwave shit to the illegals and splurge on a machine.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Build a wall around the Route 128/I-495 Boston Beltway and contain the illegals before they spill out into the Southcoast, Cape Cod, Berkshires, etc.

And turn Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket into prison colonies patrolled by gunboats. Yes, contain the summer residents with the illegals there too.

I hate this state.

Let's add winter to see how many will enjoy cold weather and GTFO when it's too cold for them?

 

[JosephStalin]

How many refugees are in your house right now driscoll? better be more than zero...

The rich haven't and wont be affected by this.

Anyone stupid enough to let such vermin into their home deserves what they get. This being MA, some fools will do so and in due time will be robbed, raped, murdered, etc. The vast majority of people will just ignore this 'appeal', as would anyone with one functioning brain cell. Remember, these countries aren't sending their best people, they send the worst, not unlike the Cuban Boatlift of decades ago.