Migrants are sleeping on the floor at Boston airport due to sanctuary state's overwhelmed shelter system

Roughly 100 migrants are being temporarily housed at Boston's Logan Airport as Massachusetts, a sanctuary state, struggles to find accommodations amid its overwhelmed shelter system, WBZ-TV reported Tuesday.

Videos of the airport captured many migrants, including men, women, and children, huddled in a corner of Logan Airport's international terminal, Terminal E. The footage showed migrants sleeping on blankets on the floor next to their belongings.

Keturah Douze, who is in contact with some of the migrants, told WBZ that she has been providing the asylum-seekers with hygiene products.

"A lot of well care stuff because while they're at the airport they don't have access to a shower so there's like some shower wipes, little towels just to clean up while they wait," Douze explained.

Massachusetts State Police are being provided with overtime pay to patrol the airport, according to Democratic Governor Maura Healey.

"The airport has been a wonderful partner, and I really want to thank the folks at the airport who are doing a wonderful job including members of the state police who are working their regular shifts but who are managing the inflow and outflow of folks from the airport," Healey said during a Monday news conference.

The governor called on the White House to assist with the ongoing migrant crisis. She is requesting an additional $250 million in federal funding but estimates Massachusetts will spend $915 million next year providing migrant services.

"We need D.C. to act. We need Congress to act. The path is there in terms of what needs to be done to fix the border situation, to fix some of the asylum processes and to get much-needed funding to some of the interior states who have had to shoulder the burden for a problem that is geopolitical and is not the state's making," Healey continued.

Healey declared a state of emergency in August, citing the increase in new migrant arrivals. In November, the governor reported that the state's homeless shelter system had reached capacity after providing accommodations to 7,500 families. Those seeking shelter are being placed on a waiting list. She has repeatedly called on the Biden administration to help address the crisis.

San Diego International Airport also began temporarily allowing migrants to move in after the city's shelter system was overwhelmed in November.

Chicago's O'Hare International Airport was converted into a makeshift migrant shelter in September. Asylum-seekers were provided with cots tucked away and hidden from the public behind large black curtains.

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