Massachusetts’ state-funded migrant-family shelter facilities have been rife with incidents of child rape, drugs, physical assaults and other illicit crimes, according to internal documents obtained by the Boston Herald.
Frightening episodes of sexual and physical assaults have plagued the Massachusetts family-migrant shelter program since at least 2022, according to a batch of “Serious Incident” reports obtained by the Boston Herald via a records request. Publicity of the internal reports is adding further headache to an administration that has doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding to house migrants and other homeless families over the past several years.
The list of disturbing reports includes one incident in which a father reportedly sexually assaulted his daughter and impregnated her. “Her father has had sex with her multiple times, both on the journey to the U.S. and in the U.S.,” read a report from May 2024 that was obtained by the Herald.
In other incidents uncovered in the internal documents, a man was charged with drug trafficking after police discovered 900 pills and ammunition on him, a girl was nearly abducted when taking out the trash and a child was allegedly sexually assaulted.
The latest reports have prompted further criticism of Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, who has been on the defensive about the state’s laws restricting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
“I can’t stress enough that what’s happening in these migrant shelters is worse than anyone could ever imagine, and it’s been going on unabated for years,” Massachusetts GOP Chairwoman Amy Carnevale said in a statement to the Boston Herald. “The Healey-Driscoll Administration has overseen a state-funded humanitarian crisis, funded entirely by taxpayers, and now they want even more money to sustain this broken system.”
“Inspections might uncover more horrors, but they don’t solve the root problem: Massachusetts’ overly generous Right-to-Shelter law, which has become a magnet for migrants and illegal immigrants worldwide,” she continued.
Accusations of heinous crime happening within Massachusetts’ emergency shelter system have been ongoing for months across the state.
A Haitian national was arrested in March for allegedly raping a disabled minor at a Comfort Inn in Rockland that was being used for migrant housing. A Dominican national living unlawfully in the country was arrested in December after being caught with an AR-15 rifle and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of illicit drugs in his shelter residence.
Following the arrest of that Dominican man, Healey on Monday ordered sweeping inspections of all state-run emergency shelters. The Democrat governor said it was “outrageous” that the illegal migrant was able to take advantage of the state’s shelter system to engage in criminal activity.
Massachusetts has utilized 128 different hotels and motels to house asylum seekers and other homeless families since the immigration crisis began — at great expense to state taxpayers. A state commission report recently determined that Massachusetts would spend up to one billion dollars on its emergency shelter system in the 2025 fiscal year.
While Healey has been reluctant to embrace the moniker, other immigration observers have identified Massachusetts as a “sanctuary state” for illegal migrants, with the Center for Immigration studies pointing to a detainer policy that restricts local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with deportation officers. Boston, among numerous sanctuary cities in the state, refused every single civil immigration detainer request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement throughout 2024, according to the Boston Police Department.
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