CorpusRecord 25115

Massachusetts' $4B Migrant Crisis: No Plan, No Housing, No End in Sight?!

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Source
YouTube / WACA-TV Ashland
Date
2025-04-20
Location
Middlesex County, MA
Material
Transcript
Extent
84 words · about 1 min
Collected
2026-06-05

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001We're 3 years into the migrant crisis here in Massachusetts. The legislature continues to pass funding to fund what we refer to as the Healey Hotels with no accountability and more importantly no no exit strategy to find permanent housing for the migrants. And the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has spent over $4 billion on this crisis. And there's no plan uh for housing for the migrants. And ultimately, the Commonwealth is failing the migrants. It's it's just totally unacceptable. And other budgets are being stressed in the Commonwealth. School budgets, public safety budgets are being stressed. And you know this lunacy needs to

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