8-29-2023 11:19pm

State Has No Reservations About Dumping Human Beings on Unsuspecting Towns

Alan Earls Editor

Baymont Wyndham hotel in Kingston started with a dozen illegal immigrants last year and reportedly is up to 400. A search of the Wyndham website no longer seems to list the hotel, perhaps because it has been leased for the long term.

In the evolving ‘migrant’ situation now involving at least 38 communities across the Commonwealth, including Franklin, there has been minimal official information from the newly renamed Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC), formerly known as the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). Former Dean Chancellor Ed Augustus runs the organization, but he, too, is not saying much.

According to published reports, some communities seem to be housing hundreds of families and, by and large, things seem to have gone smoothly. Kingston, for example, started with a dozen a year ago and now is reportedly housing 400 people.

But Taunton hoteliers have reportedly had issues with guests and in Woburn which recently got a significant cohort of new residents and school-age children, there were actual “protests” decrying the presence of the migrants at three hotels.

According to a Woburn Patch report, a group called Nationalist Social Club 131, also known as NSC-131, took credit for the protest on the social media platform Telegram and later confirmed to The Globe that it was behind the protest, which featured alarmist rhetoric and, reportedly, Nazi leanings. The group does not appear to have been affiliated with people in the Woburn community, however.

Framingham, has avoided either noisome protests or significant problems, but Mayor Charlie Sisitsky, has made it clear to federal and state officials – and the media – that the situation is stressing municipal services in the city to the limit.

Again, according to published reports, as of a few days ago, Framingham had received three waves of illegal immigrants, apparently seeking asylum,

On August 25, the Metrowest News reported another group of arrivals in Framingham. It is a situation that Sisitsky has warned is serious and will have its greatest impact on the schools, given the requirement to educate students that may be lacking in any English language skills and may also be behind Massachusetts-defined grade-level expectations.

Sisitsky’s plea for help was also embodied in a press release acknowledging both the help received from the community and some of the additional help still needed, the text of which is reproduced below. It provides some sense of the municipality’s challenges...

In Franklin, of course, which does not have a mayor, the responsibility for managing the situation has fallen on the health department. But nothing new has been posted on the situation on that department's web site, since the original announcement of the Franklin Best Western's leasing by the state.

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BELOW, AS ISSUED BY FRAMINGHAM MAYOR SISITSKY

August 20, 2023

City of Framingham Partners With Framingham Interfaith Clergy Association To Organize Donations For Refugee Families

FRAMINGHAM - The City of Framingham is partnering with the Framingham Interfaith Clergy Association to collect and organize donations for the refugee families in the City of Framingham in three hotels. On Sunday, August 13, the City had 12 families with 39 individuals and 18 children in one hotel. As of today, August 20, the City now has families in three hotels. There are 10 families in a second hotel and more than 30 families in a third hotel.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has indicated to the City that more families are due in August and September. Some of these families will be here until the end of September and some of these families will be here through the end of October. Both stays could also be extended by the Commonwealth. With the first wave of families, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had Jewish Family Service of MetroWest oversee the families.

With the first set of families, the City organized and collected donations at two fire stations. With now more than 40 families, the City is collaborating with Framingham Interfaith Clergy Association to collect donations at their churches, parishes, and temples. Starting Monday, August 21, donations can be dropped off at Edwards Church at 39 Edwards Street in Saxonville on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon this week.

Temple Beth Sholom at 50 Pamela Road in Framingham will accept donations on Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon this week. Additional churches, parishes, and temples will be added at a later date. The families have no microwaves and no refrigerators in their rooms, for the most part. So we are only accepting the following donations.

• Shelf milk

• Juice boxes

• Instant oatmeal

• Individual-portion cereal boxes

• Granola bars

• Snack size canned fruit

• Pedialyte

• Gatorade

• Children’s vitamins

• Tylenol (children’s & adults)

• Children’s flu & cold medicine

• Similac baby formula for under 1 year and 1 year