Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) is turning a former correctional facility into a temporary shelter to house migrants.
On Friday, residents in Norfolk were informed that the state had plans to convert the Bay State Correctional Center into a “temporary emergency shelter” for migrants, a statement from Norfolk town administrator Justin Casanova-Davis said.
As of 2024, the population of the town of Norfolk was estimated to be 11,676 people.
“The Town was informed on Friday that the decommissioned Bay State Correctional Center has been designated as a temporary emergency shelter by the Healey Administration,” Casanova-Davis’s statement, issued on Monday, said.
Casanova-Davis’s statement continued to say that the decision from the Healey administration had been made as part of the state’s “ongoing response to the number of migrant families arriving in Massachusetts” and that the town “had no role” in making the decision:
By law Massachusetts is a “right to shelter” state. The state must provide adequate living spaces, clean and decent surroundings, pure air and water, sanitation, and other civic amenities to families, pregnant women, and migrant families in an attempt to reduce homelessness.
“Emergency shelters have opened in communities of all sizes across the state,” he continued.
That’s going to be more expensive than sending them back to where they came from
Why not keep it as a prison and lock up all the hoodlums in this country who are turned loosed after going before liberal, bleeding heart DAs and whimpy judges? Get them the hell off our streets.