Massachusetts Gov. In order to house migrants, Maura Healey ( D) is renovating a former correctional facility.
Residents of Norfolk were informed on Friday that the state intended to turn the Bay State Correctional Center into a “temporary disaster house” for migrants, according to a statement from Norfolk city manager Justin Casanova-Davis.
As of 2024, the inhabitants of the city of Norfolk was estimated to be 11, 676 persons.
” The Town was informed on Friday that the decommissioned Bay State Correctional Center has been designated as a momentary emergency house by the Healey Administration”, Casanova- Davis’s speech, issued on Monday,  , said.
In a statement from Casanova-Davis, the Healey presidency claimed that the city “had no part” in making the decision and that it had been made as part of the government’s “ongoing response to the number of immigrant families arriving in Massachusetts”:
By laws Massachusetts is a “right to house” position. The state may provide adequate living areas, clean and respectable area, pure air and water, sanitation, and other civic services to individuals, pregnant women, and immigrant families in an attempt to reduce poverty.
” Emergency homes have opened in areas of all size across the state”, he continued.
My opinion of the original Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk’s proposed emergency household house webpage. #mapoli# NorfolkMA photograph. twitter.com/bY9F3rWyLN
— Senator Becca Rausch ( @BeccaRauschMA ) May 13, 2024
In a statement from Massachusetts State Sen. Becca Rausch ( D), she expressed concern about” the effects of an influx of more than 400 people” to the town’s 11,500-person population.
” I hope no one would want to view pregnant women, children, and people without shelter”, Rausch wrote in her statement. ” At the same time, the impacts of an flood of more than 400 people, including some school- younger children, to a town with a population of just 11, 500 has been managed properly and properly”.
More than a week after the governor of Massachusetts approved the state’s finances, which provides an additional$ 426 million for accommodation illegal immigrants, comes the Healey administration’s news.
There were roughly one million immigrants living in Massachusetts, according to data from the Immigration Learning Center.
In Massachusetts ‘ emergency house system, about 3,500 people were reportedly staying there as of December 2023. In 2023, about 4, 000 workers were given prison in the state, according to CBS News.
While Massachusetts deals with a wave of workers, many people have begun fleeing. According to state records, the state will spend about$ 164 per day on feeding each migrant and is projected to spend about$ 1 billion by 2025.
