
Illegal Immigrants Moving Into Soldiers’ Home Where Veterans Must Pay to Stay
CHELSEA, Mass.—As Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey prepares to move illegal immigrants into Boston’s Soldiers’ Home—a facility that has long served as a home for U.S. veterans—a new poll reveals increasing discontent in the state over the amount of money spent on housing illegal immigrants. According to a WGBH News/CommonWealth Beacon poll, conducted by MassINC Polling Group, 47 percent of respondents oppose providing emergency shelter to illegal immigrants while 45 percent support it, a 10-point drop from the 55 percent that supported the policy in an October 2023 poll conducted by the same polling firm. “The budgetary impacts are becoming more clear, and people are beginning to see it as a bigger issue, perhaps, than it was when it first began,” MassINC president Steve Koczela told WGBH, a public broadcasting station in Boston. ...
