{"id":2019428,"date":"2023-09-01T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-governor-calls-in-national-guard-amid-growing-blue-state-freakout-over-migrants\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:29:33","slug":"massachusetts-governor-calls-in-national-guard-amid-growing-blue-state-freakout-over-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-governor-calls-in-national-guard-amid-growing-blue-state-freakout-over-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Governor seeks National Guard&#8217;s assistance amidst blue state&#8217;s migrant concerns."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassachusetts-governor-calls-in-national-guard-amid-growing-blue-state-freakout-over-migrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2019428&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Massachusetts Governor Mobilizes National Guard to \u2064Assist with Migrant Influx<\/h2>\n<p>Massachusetts governor \u2063Maura Healey (D.) has taken\u2063 action to address the \u2064strain caused by the massive influx of unlawful migrants following the Biden administration&#8217;s\u200d suspension of Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>Members \u200bof the Massachusetts National\u2062 Guard will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/massachusetts-gov-maura-healey-activates-national-guard-assist-emergency-shelters-housing-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assist<\/a> in providing services to migrants as the state&#8217;s other \u2062resources \u200dare spread thin. Healey activated 250 guardsmen for this operation. The governor earlier \u2063this \u2063month declared a state \u200dof emergency in \u2062response to the surge \u200cin migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Healey joins a growing group of Democrats who \u2062are embracing more hawkish approaches to \u2064immigration \u2063as \u2064their jurisdictions struggle to \u200daccommodate \u200drecord numbers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fewer-illegal-immigrants-crossing-border-yet-got-away-rate-increasing\/\" title=\"Less illegal immigration, but more successful escapes.\">immigrants illegally entering<\/a> the country. Democrats \u200din\u2062 New York, New Jersey, Colorado,\u2062 and Washington, D.C., have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-governor-calls-in-national-guard-amid-growing-blue-state-freakout-over-migrants\/\" title=\"Massachusetts Governor seeks National Guard's assistance amidst blue state's migrant concerns.\">employed strategies typically favored<\/a> by Republicans to address the consequences of Biden&#8217;s immigration policy.<\/p>\n<h3>New York\u2062 City Mayor\u200c Takes Surprising Measures<\/h3>\n<p>New York City mayor Eric Adams has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/31\/nyregion\/migrant-messaging-nyc-adams.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employed<\/a> a host of measures \u200cclashing with his\u200b prior welcoming statements toward\u2063 illegal\u200c immigrants. Adams submitted a request \u2064to\u200c a judge to relieve the city of its obligation\u2062 to shelter migrants, distributed flyers at the southern border discouraging migrants from coming to\u2062 New York, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/dems-turn-on-each-other-over-new-york-migrant-crisis\/\">clashed<\/a> with the governor over plans to bus migrants to upstate New York.<\/p>\n<h3>New Jersey Governor Shifts Stance\u200d on Immigration<\/h3>\n<p>Governor \u2063Phil Murphy (D.) of \u200bneighboring New Jersey has \u2063also seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/08\/31\/murphy-new-jersey-influx-migrants-00113692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abandoned<\/a> his pro-immigrant credentials now that the issue is at his state&#8217;s border.\u2064 Murphy, who has previously said that New \u200bJersey would be a sanctuary state, is vocally opposed to migrants in New York being transferred to his state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need scale, enormous amount of federal support, resources that go beyond anything that we can afford,&#8221; Murphy said of accommodating\u2064 the migrants. &#8220;Putting everything else aside, I just don&#8217;t see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Democrats Adopting Republican \u200dStrategies<\/h3>\n<p>Colorado governor\u200d Jared Polis (D.)\u2064 earlier this year took a page out of Governor Greg Abbott&#8217;s (R., Texas) \u200cplaybook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/09\/colorado-governor-end-migrant-buses-chicago-new-york-00076993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">busing<\/a> migrants who had been\u200c difficult to accommodate \u2063to New York City\u200d and Chicago. D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser (D.), meanwhile, has twice tried to convince the Pentagon to deploy \u200cthe national guard to assist with the migrant crisis, only for her requests to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/22\/politics\/pentagon-rejects-dc-mayor-request-migrants\/index.html\">rejected<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of blue cities and states appear fed up with the inability of their leaders to handle the inflow of immigrants. A recent viral <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1697304424501088447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clip<\/a> showed the primarily African-American residents of Chicago&#8217;s south \u2064side voicing \u200cconcerns about migrants in their community. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want them there,&#8221; one resident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/residents-to-gather-on-chicagos-south-side-to-discuss-latest-migrant-shelter-at-the-lake-shore-hotel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shouted<\/a> in response to the city&#8217;s decision to\u200d house migrants in a neighborhood hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Community and business leaders in New York, meanwhile, have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/28\/nyc-biz-leaders-demand-biden-speed-up-migrant-work-permits-take-control-of-us-border\/\">authored a letter<\/a> to the Biden administration pleading with them to do more to alleviate the migrant crisis while attempts to move migrants into different neighborhoods have been met with protests from residents.<\/p>\n<h3>Record High Illegal Crossings<\/h3>\n<p>Illegal \u2062crossings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2023\/08\/31\/border-families-record-crossings-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reached<\/a> an all-time high in August, with\u200c border patrol agents \u200barresting\u2063 177,000 individuals. This figure does not include migrants who evaded authorities. The Biden administration has attempted to stem the flow by limiting the number of asylum claims they would\u200c process \u200dper day. However, the administration ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-waives-more-migrants-through-southern-border-than-promised\/\">ignoring<\/a> its own rules, waiving through nearly 1,500 migrants\u2062 per \u200cday in July.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Healey\u2064 seemingly placed some blame on the federal government for the \u2063situation, saying the crisis \u2064was the result of &#8220;a confusing tangle of \u2063immigration laws, an inability for migrants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-bidens-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Democrat Governor declares emergency due to Biden's border crisis.\">obtain work authorization<\/a> from the federal government, an increase in the number of people \u2062coming\u2064 to Massachusetts, and the lack of an affordable\u2062 housing supply in our state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D.) has deployed the state&#8217;s national guard to aid in managing the overwhelming number of illegal migrants after the Biden administration halted Title 42. The Massachusetts National Guard will support migrant services due to limited state resources. Healey has taken action by activating them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2019429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}