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Deadline arrives for migrants to vacate impromptu Boston Logan Airport shelter [Video]

Migrant families will no longer be allowed to sleep overnight at Boston’s Logan International Airport.Last month, Gov. Maura Healey ordered migrants to be out of Terminal E by Tuesday. They’ve been sleeping there for months because state shelters are at capacity.”From the beginning, we’ve never thought that Logan was an appropriate place to be staying overnight,” Healey said.”The airport was never intended to house homeless families,” said Gladys Vega, president of La Colaborativa, a Latina-led organization that helps immigrants in Greater Boston.At its peak, Logan Airport was home to hundreds of migrant families, sleeping in a corner of the international arrivals terminal. On June 25, 288 people were recorded sleeping there overnight. By Tuesday morning, only a handful of families were in Terminal E. “The governor and her team have been working incredibly hard on identifying the locations for shelter space and they’ve even opened up more. This is a …

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