Gov. Maura Healey continues to show her pragmatism-over-ideology side of governing, putting more limits on the state’s shelter program that’s now bursting at the seams due to the recent influx of migrants. 

One can debate whether the shelter law was ever intended to provide housing for migrants in the first place (I happen to think it wasn’t). But there should be no debate about these two assertions by Healey: 1.) “We simply cannot afford the current size of this system” and 2.) “With Congress continuing to fail to act on immigration reform, we need to make more changes.”

Update – Joan Vennochi thinks Kamala Harris should look to Massachusetts to see where the immigration issue is headed. And it’s not headed left.