The immigrant invasion of Massachusetts is to Gov. Maura Healey what the COVID-19 pandemic was to former Gov. Charlie Baker.
Both governors declared a state of emergency, Baker on March 10, Sept. 14, 2020, and Healey on August 8, 2023.
Both occasions consumed their time, political capital, budgets and vitality, giving them little time to take care of a myriad of different points demanding their consideration.
The pandemic, which shut the state and the nation down, arrived throughout Baker’s second and final time period as governor, so he already had years of expertise as chief govt.
In Healey’s case, the explosion of immigrants descending on an unprepared Massachusetts virtually hit her within the face on the primary day of the job over a 12 months in the past. She has been combating it ever since.
It was not even a problem within the 2022 marketing campaign for governor through which she handily defeated Republican Geoff Diehl. Now it has exploded.
But the important thing distinction is that President Joe Biden, promising to take care of the pandemic, signed his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act that poured some $115 billion into Massachusetts underneath numerous federal packages for Baker.
So far, Healey, regardless of begging, has been unable to get even $115 {dollars} out of Biden.
Nor has the ineffective Massachusetts delegation to Washington, headed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Eddie Markey, carried out any higher in wrangling cash out of the Biden administration.
You would by no means realize it, however U.S. Rep. Richard Neal of Springfield was the chairman of the highly effective House Ways & Means Committee, which doles out billions, when the Democrats managed the House. Now he’s the rating member. But there is no such thing as a cash for illegals.
Unlike the immigration disaster, the pandemic subsided and usually went away.
Open borders and unlawful immigration are right here to remain—not less than so long as Joe Biden is president.
Biden on each points failed to put the blame the place it belongs. In the case of COVID, Biden has refused to carry the Communist Chinese accountable for the virus that emanated from its lab in Wuhan that killed tens of millions of individuals within the U.S. and world wide.
Biden has additionally refused to take duty for the unlawful invasion of the nation that started on day one among his administration when he reversed insurance policies put in place by President Donald Trump that had secured the border.
Instead, Biden is trying guilty Trump for his resolution to open the border, halt building of the wall, and wave into the nation tens of millions of immigrants from in all places, together with criminals and terrorists.
The outcome has been the destabilization of cities and states throughout the nation, some cities of which, like New York, Chicago and Boston as soon as preened about being sanctuary havens for unlawful immigrants. Now they’re moaning.
And Biden, who created the issue, has ignored pleas from political leaders, a lot of whom are fellow Democrats and supporters like Healey, for monetary aid.
Joe Biden has handed out more cash ($8 billion) to the Taliban in Afghanistan than he has to Maura Healey in Massachusetts.
Yet she nonetheless helps him. And the state of affairs worsens.
She could be higher off telling Biden to close the border down earlier than the continued onslaught of unlawful immigrants shuts Massachusetts down.
Martha’s Vineyard was the canary within the coal mine.
It was nearly handled as against the law in opposition to humanity when Florida Gov. Ron DiSantis flew in some 50 unlawful immigrants, largely Venezuelans, from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in 2022.
While welcomed, the Islanders couldn’t get them off the island quick sufficient. Instead of sending them again to Texas or Venezuela, then Gov. Baker had them shipped to Joint Base Cape Cod the place they might join beneficiant welfare advantages.
Since then, that batch of fifty immigrants arriving in Massachusetts to partake of its beneficiant social welfare packages has grown to fifty thousand, and nonetheless counting. And nobody is distributed again.
Maybe Healey ought to inform Biden to only shut the door.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”