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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

Massachusetts governor declares emergency and urges help for migrants

Maura Healey: ‘We need federal partnership, federal funding, and urgent federal action to meet this moment and to continue to serve some of our most vulnerable families.’
Maura Healey: ‘We need federal partnership, federal funding, and urgent federal action to meet this moment and to continue to serve some of our most vulnerable families.’ Photograph: Steve LeBlanc/AP

Massachusetts governor Maura Healey declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as shelters housing migrants and refugees reached capacity, and called on the federal government to help.

In a letter addressed to US secretary of homeland security Alejandro Mayorkas, Healey said: “To our partners in the federal government, Massachusetts has stepped up to address what sadly has been a federal crisis of inaction that is many years in the making.

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