Illegal immigrants overwhelm shelter system, sleep on the airport floor; Democrat Governor says this 'isn’t new'

BOSTON, MA— Reports coming from Boston have shown that several dozen illegal immigrants are inhabiting a closed-off area of Terminal E at the Boston Logan International Airport with zero prospects of being able to leave.

As noted by The Boston Post, the very situation that Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey reportedly "hoped wouldn’t happen" has found illegal immigrants stranded at the airport at the taxpayer's expense rather than being sent back to their countries of origin.

Footage of the abhorrent situation was posted to X by the political activist account Bostonians Against Mayor Wu, who wrote, "Video of the illegal aliens being sheltered at Boston Logan Airport, Terminal E before they get released into your community on your tax dollar. Build the wall. NOW!"

Reporting from The Daily Mail updated January 24 estimated approximately 100 illegal immigrants are presently squatting at the airport. The outlet reported that the Massachusetts shelter system has reached full capacity with approximately 7,500 families as of November, and Healey has been reduced to calling upon Congress for help with illegal immigrants filling hospital waiting rooms and churches all over the state.
 

"We need D.C. to act. We need Congress to act," the governor said at a press conference. "The path is there in terms of what needs to be done to fix the border situation, to fix some of the asylum processes and to get much needed funding to some of the interior states who have had to shoulder the burden for a problem that is geopolitical..."

Healey then claimed that the problem is "not the state's making," ignoring the "sanctuary" policies that have helped to bring the crisis upon her state that could cost taxpayers as much as $915 million next year.

Massport, the agency managing the airport, has said that the illegal immigrants cannot stay, though Healey has praised them for their cooperation. Massport interim CEO Ed Freni said that the airport is "not an appropriate place" for illegal immigrants to stay and added they are arriving 20-25 per day.

"When they come to Logan we meet them and we try to assist them, but we have to emphasize that Logan is not an appropriate place to house people," Freni told Daily Mail.

During an interview with WBUR Friday morning, Healey appeared to deflect criticism over the airport situation by saying that families sleeping at the Logan Airport, "isn’t new," according to The Boston Herald.  

“People have been at Logan for months now,” she said to Radio Boston. “We continue to see migrants coming into Massachusetts, they’re coming into other states. I talked to governors frequently about the real challenge this is. This is not something that Massachusetts created. It is something that has been created by geopolitical forces by a failure to act on the federal level.”

Republican Massachusetts House Minority Leader Brad Jones slammed Healey in a statement saying, "Funding for the migrant shelter crisis continues to drain much-needed revenues that would otherwise have been spent on other programs and services, with no end in sight, as evidenced by the Governor’s companion piece of legislation filed today that would empty the Transitional Escrow Fund to pay for this program."