Immigration

The legislature is currently finalizing its latest legislation to shore up the commonwealth’s emergency shelter system.

I had occasion today to pay a visit to a shelter for over 40 immigrant families within my senate district in Boston. I could only scan the surface of life in the shelter, and this shelter may not be typical, but my impressions added to my confidence in the system.

I plan to support the “work and family mobility” bill.

The Massachusetts State Senate has written to the President urging reversal of his harmful policy of separating families at the border.

Every once in a while you run into a story that you can’t quite believe and you just want to hear more.

Yesterday, the Massachusetts Senate adopted this resolution, which I was pleased to support. In the discussion around the vote, one of the most moving statements came from a new member of the Senate, Adam Hinds, who served for a number of years in Syria and Iraq for the UN.