By Evereth Woodruff 
Gov. Maura Healey won’t say this, so we will!
You can thank President Donald Trump for helping end the taxpayer-funded Right to Shelter crisis, which has cost Massachusetts billions. Credit ICE, too, for turning up the heat on illegal immigrants in Greater Boston and across the country.
You also won’t hear Senator Liz Warren or Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, basically anyone in the Massachusetts DC delegation, admit that the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants helped solve our migrant crisis.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller galled the progressives with his laser focus on illegal immigration, but who was watching out for taxpayers? He was!
That question seems to be dismissed too easily by the jet-setting public employees in the Bay State. (Yes, we’re talking about you, Attorney General Andrea Campbell.) But we are not afraid to admit the Southern Border was a sieve under President Joe Biden and his Border Czar, VP Kamala Harris.
MassGOP Chair Amy Carnevale did credit the Trump administration for helping out here.
She said: “The end of Massachusetts’ emergency shelter crisis is the result of strong border policies, enacted by the Trump administration, which stemmed the tide of unchecked immigration that took place in the Biden administration.
“A crisis continues, however, in the Commonwealth’s HomeBASE program, where illegal immigrants ineligible for legal employment are receiving taxpayer subsidies to pay their rent,” she added. “Governor Healey should work with federal authorities to return these individuals to their home countries, opening up apartments for citizens in Massachusetts’ strained housing market.”
The illegal immigration issue does not make for good photo ops for Democrats. The sight of families trudging through the Darién Gap, where “migrants risk death,” is a humanitarian nightmare that was fueled by Biden’s open border policies. America has a legal immigration system that, however flawed, allows newcomers into our country.
Circumventing that system produced this disaster.
Harris lost the election for many reasons, but illegal immigration was one of them. She did not grasp the enormity of the crime that resulted by looking the other way.
We will save the evolution of the “worst first” approach of forced deportations by the current administration for another day. Could an amnesty program help those here with vital jobs that help keep our economy running? Possibly.
But the Right to Shelter debacle is exactly why progressive politics is a complete failure. Taxpayers deserve to have a say in how their hard-earned money is spent. We all have compassion, but common sense must be part of the formula.
The leaders of Massachusetts government, overwhelmingly Democrat, need to stop spending your money with impunity. The governor likely came to the same conclusion and finally got serious with the emergency shelter system. It’s clear she wants to win reelection and hope the Democrats figure things out and take back control in Washington.
But she failed to thank the right people and that is a textbook reason why her party is on the downslope.
Taxpayers deserve a government that works for them. It’s that simple. It’s not happening here.
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