Desperate Migrants: Over 100 Refugees Living At Boston Airport Baggage Claim With No Place To Go
More than a hundred migrants are now living at Boston Logan Airport baggage claim, creating a makeshift community using limited blankets as mattresses. The baggage claim refugee camp began earlier this year but has grown with migrants arriving at "at all hours." Migrants are transported to state welcome centers each day, but then brought back to the airport by nightfall since state shelters are at capacity - to live in a cold environ with hard floors, bright lights and loud announcements. Over 100 migrants are living at Boston Logan Airport's baggage claim, using limited blankets as mattresses. The makeshift camp has grown, with migrants arriving at all hours from state welcome centers and returning to the airport late into the night due to capacity. The Governor of Massachusetts has announced the conversion of a former prison into a 400 family shelter, expected to relieve Logan Airport baggage claim. Other airports like Chicago's O’Hare have also been used as temporary migrant housing. In New York, a large portion of lower-end hotel stock has been converted to house asylum seekers, and as many as 1 in 5 passengers flying out of border-area airports to major cities may be migrants.
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More than a hundred migrants are now living at Boston Logan Airport baggage claim, creating a makeshift community using limited blankets as mattresses. The baggage claim refugee camp began earlier this year but has grown with migrants arriving at “at all hours.”
Migrants are transported to state welcome centers each day, but then brought back to the airport by nightfall since state shelters are at capacity – to live in a cold environ with hard floors, bright lights and loud announcements.
Last month the Governor of Massachusetts announced the conversion of a former prison into a 400 family shelter, which is expected to be a stopgap to relieve Logan Airport baggage claim. Other airports such as Chicago’s O’Hare have been used as temporary migrant housing as well.
Historically have kicked out the homeless and though the politics are different, these individuals and families lack a place to live too. In cities like New York a large portion of the lower-end of hotel stock has been converted to house asylum seekers. Meanwhile as many as 1 in 5 passengers flying out of border-area airports to major cities may be migrants.
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