We tried Martha's Vineyard

Boston Globe: "‘Why Roxbury? Try Wellesley!’ Has Boston done enough to ease the state’s migrant crisis?"

A little backstory: illegal migrants were sleeping in Boston's Logan Airport so the governor decided to ship them out to Roxbury.

Seven years later, that visual of immigrants living in a government building in Boston became a reality when dozens of migrants had to sleep on the floors of a baggage claim area at Boston Logan International Airport. The untenable situation, coupled with a crisis of emergency shelter locations across the state, forced Governor Maura Healey to convert the Melnea Cass Recreational Complex in Roxbury, a state-owned facility, into a temporary overflow shelter to accommodate up to 100 homeless families, including migrants.

The move prompted mixed reactions in Roxbury, where some people protested outside the recreational complex with signs that read “Boston’s full” and “Why Roxbury? Try Wellesley!” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu initially expressed disappointment over Healey’s decision to use the facility in Roxbury, a predominantly Black neighborhood, in light of the area’s history of economic disadvantages. “For the first community where this is being proposed to be Roxbury, a community that over so many decades has faced disinvestment, redlining, disproportionate outcomes. It’s very painful, and it’s painfully familiar,” Wu said on a radio show on Monday.

So we can't house them with the rich in Wellesley or Martha's Vineyard but we also can't shelter them in Roxbury because of economic disenfranchisement.  Sheesh, what happed to "no human is illegal?"