State and federal Homeland Security officials will co-host a clinic the week of Nov. 13 in Middlesex County, north of Boston. The state will organize appointments and provide transportation for migrants from shelter sites statewide.
Even a sanctuary state has a limit on how many migrants it can accommodate. The guarantee that comes with that designation only found in Massachusetts will likely expire at the end of this month. That’s when Gov. Maura Healey says the overwhelmed state will reach its capacity.
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BOSTON Almost 7,000 families, comprising 23,000 people – more than half of whom are children - are being housed in 90 cities and towns across the commonwealth, and UMass Lowell’s Inn and Conference Center is still being eyed as an emergency shelter site, Gov. Maura Healey said during a State House press conference Monday morning.