For months, officials in Massachusetts have warned they were overwhelmed by the number of migrants arriving.
Healey said last year that the state’s emergency shelter system for families had reached capacity with 7,500 families.
At one point last year, the state’s lieutenant governor called on residents to consider housing migrants in their homes due to the lack of shelter space. And recently a delegation from the state traveled to the US Southern border to spread the word “about how Massachusetts is out of shelter space,” officials said.