‘Our shelters are full': Gov. Healey sends Mass. officials to southern border

A blue state has deployed officials to the southern border in Texas to warn migrants that their shelters are full, as it struggles to house the numbers of migrants it is seeing.

Massachusetts' Democratic Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday announced that she had sent members of her administration to the border, citing "record" numbers of migrants coming to Boston.

Officials will make connections with federal agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and migrant families "to educate them about the lack of shelter availability in Massachusetts." They will visit airports, migrant shelters, ports of entry and migrant welcome centers in San Antonio, McAllen, Hidalgo and Brownsville.