Battenfeld: Massachusetts will get no relief from migrant crisis thanks to Maura Healey

Hey Massachusetts taxpayers, are you ready to spend the next four years paying the full freight for migrants to live in your community?

You can thank the politically-driven Gov. Maura Healey for that.

Massachusetts taxpayers will be on the hook for four years with no federal help because of Healey and her delusion that she’s doing the people’s will by fighting the Trump mandate to crack down on illegal immigration.

Despite no evidence she has Massachusetts voters’ support, Healey vowed on liberal water carrier MSNBC to block state police from deporting illegal immigrants and would use “every tool in the toolbox” to protect residents because, well, she knows better.

“I am sure there may be litigation ahead, there is a lot of other ways people are going to act and need to act for the sake of their states and residents,” she said. “There’s regulatory authority and executive powers and the like there’s legislation also within our state. So, I think the key here is that, you know, every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens, to protect our residents and protect our states and to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law as a basic principle.”

How is she carrying out the will of Massachustts voters? Clearly she’s not.

Despite reelecting self-aggrandizing Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats, President-elect Trump won over 1.23 million voters and the state is getting more moderate.

Voters and even some Democratic leaders here are frustrated that the migrant crisis is bankrupting the state and overtaxing the school system. Even in liberal New York City, officials decided to end giving out debit cards to migrants in the wake of Trump’s election.

There is one way to test Healey’s support: a recall.

And she might want to take that threat seriously, because polls show her favorability lagging in this heavily Democratic-leaning state.

Healey at least should be concerned about her own re-election chances.

Now that he’s been cast out and canceled by Massachusetts liberals for saying he didn’t want his daughter playing men or transgender athletes in sports, Rep. Seth Moulton might need a new job.

Healey, elected as a centrist, has been a complete and utter disappointment as governor.

House Speaker Ron Mariano, who realizes Democrats have become out of touch, needs to step up and stop the governor’s insanity.

He’s already said Massachusetts can’t afford financing migrants. He was hoping for a new administration in Washington to help out but now that’s not happening.

“As the funds begin to dry up and we continue to get bills that are projected to be close to $1 billion a year without any help from Washington, I think there is a point in time that you can’t fund this,” he said in April of the emergency shelter program.

Mariano can now block it and tell Healey no more state money for migrants.

Before Trump got elected, Mariano, Healey and other Democrats were begging for more aid from Joe Biden to handle the migrants.

“We need federal funding and we need expedited work authorizations,” Healey said last year.

Now that Trump’s heading back to Washington she’s singing a different tune.