Scott Rice

Massachusetts governor’s southern border trip cost $6,800

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The Healey administration shelled out more than $6,800 to send a five-person team to the southern border in Texas to “educate” people of a shelter shortage here, according to her office. The trip was pitched as another attempt to curtail the number of migrants arriving in Massachusetts and make connections with federal immigration officials who … Read more

Gov. Maura Healey bans migrants from sleeping at Boston’s Logan Airport as overflow site opens

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Gov. Maura Healey banned migrant families from sleeping at Logan Airport starting July 9, a move that will force the oftentimes large crowd that has used the airport as a shelter to find new places to sleep, she announced in a statement Friday. Healey said the decision to bar people from sleeping on the floor … Read more