Does Charlie Baker actually suppose he can pull a Ron DeSantis and nobody notices?
You could have missed it, however the Baker administration quietly bused scores of immigrant households to a questionable Methuen lodge final Friday with out even telling native authorities.
The lack of transparency is surprising sufficient however what in regards to the ethics of sending these hungry and confused immigrants, together with greater than 100 youngsters, to a lodge with none preliminary assist.
Now Methuen is predicted to choose up the slack and supply education and shelter to those households. A neighborhood pizza store despatched meals to the motel to assist out, however the state apparently did nothing.
“Eight days later, there’s still no concrete plan on how to deal with it,” mentioned Methuen Mayor Neil Perry after assembly with the state Department of Housing and Community Development on Thursday. “They didn’t even present, you know, how many of these school-aged children are what age, whether they would be going to Methuen (schools) or not.”
The state is offering no public rationalization for why the migrants had been despatched to the Methuen motel, bypassing motels and resorts in additional prosperous areas like Andover and North Andover. It’s unclear whether or not the households and youngsters are right here legally or illegally.
“All families in the shelter program receive services through local service providers, including three meals a day, assistance with housing search, case management work, and DCHD is working closely with other state agencies, local entities, and service providers to address the needs of the families that are currently housed in Methuen,” a DCHD assertion mentioned.
The migrants are from Haiti, Colombia and Venezuela, in line with Perry, and a few got here from exterior Massachusetts.
Now they’re Methuen’s drawback. Well executed, Charlie.
Baker was amongst those that questioned Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for sending dozens of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard final month.
“Sending people all over the country, many of whom have no idea why they’re being sent where they’re going, isn’t a solution to the very screwed up immigration system we have in the U.S.” Baker mentioned.
The state opened a short lived shelter for the DeSantis migrants at a Cape Cod army base, however they’ve since moved to different areas of the state.
Now Baker has basically executed the identical factor DeSantis did, offering no warning or rationalization to Methuen officers and no plan for assimilating the migrants into faculties and housing. The lodge the migrants are staying in is thought for having questions of safety, in line with native officers.
“If the plan is to find them housing in the Methuen community, I have to respectfully push back,” Mayor Perry mentioned. “Not that I don’t want them to have housing, I have housing needs of my own community today I’m not satisfying.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”