Move Over Meetings — Convention Centers May Shelter Migrants

[rangerrebew]

Move Over Meetings — Convention Centers May Shelter Migrants
Andrea Doyle

Today at 6:38 AM EST

 
Hospitals, vaccination sites, now overflow shelter sites. That is a possibility for some convention centers as cities struggle to provide housing for incoming migrants and asylum seekers.
 
Talks are underway about using the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, overseen by the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, as an overflow shelter for migrant families.

As Massachusetts’s shelter system nears capacity, the center is among the locations being considered for temporary housing for these displaced families, according to The Boston Globe.

Boston’s situation is complicated as Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey instituted a cap on emergency shelter slots. It took effect last week when the state crossed Healey’s limit of 7,500 families in emergency shelters.

Hynes is not Boston’s primary gathering site. The newer Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) is significantly larger. Hynes has 176,480 square feet of exhibition space, including the Hynes Auditorium, which seats more than 4,000 people. The BCEC, the other hand, is approximately 2.1 million square feet and is located on a 60-acre site. This makes using the Hynes for housing a bit more palpable.

https://meetings.skift.com/move-over-meetings-convention-centers-may-shelter-migrants/

[libertybele]

Lovely, just what we need. A bunch of ILLEGALS cramming our hospitals so legal Americans can't get the help that they need!

Let's just keep allowing them to keep rolling in and destroying our country!!!

It will eventually get to the point, where we are going to have to make a choice of how to deal with this invasion -- our infrastructure will collapse. We cannot sustain the impact that ILLEGALS are having on our society. We will face total mayhem in much of our country; a straw is eventually going to break the camel's back.

[Smokin Joe]

If convention centers harbor migrants (illegals), I will bet it will be a long time before they have another convention. With the damage done to hotels in New York, it is unlikely those facilities will be in any shape to host a convention any time soon, if ever again.