The Globe has a good editorial on the migrant shelter crisis – and it’s effectively backing the Healey administration’s attempts to get a handle on the problem. Here’s the part that caught our attention:

“Massachusetts has — and should continue to have — a generous emergency shelter system for residents suffering from eviction, natural disaster, domestic violence, or other misfortune. But starting Friday, we’re seeing the consequences of overpromising. Needy families came to a state that boasted of its ‘right to shelter’ — only to find themselves out on the street.”

The word ‘migrants’ doesn’t appear in the above graf, but the ‘came to the state’ part is clear. In recent years, the state’s shelter program has morphed from a program to help the needy here in Massachusetts into an open-ended, budget-busting program to help the needy from around the globe. No matter how “heartless” it may sound (to steal a word from the Globe editorial), the state simply can’t afford its recently expanded and unrealistic shelter promises.