NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — State Representative Adam Scanlon said the migrants started arriving at the Best Western on Washington Street right after the town dealt with flooding last September.c

 

“We got the call two days later,” the democrat from North Attleboro said. “We were already trying to [deal] with the other crisis.”

 

Since then, the second-term lawmaker said the migrants have been moved out of the hotel, and there are currently no migrants in North Attleboro.

 

But he said the roughly 7,500 families throughout Massachusetts are straining resources locally.

 

“State dollars impact everyone,” he said. “Whether we’re in North Attleboro, or Winchester, or Worcester. We have schools we need to fund.”

 

That’s why Scanlon said he was frustrated to find out Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren once again opposed a border bill in the U.S. Senate, saying he would have voted differently.

 

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