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Influx of migrants in Massachusetts continues to overwhelm state resources — and more may be on the way

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The new arrivals are turning up at Logan Airport, South Station, and hospitals and community health centers at all hours.

After a brief winter respite, a new surge of migrants is overwhelming the state’s aid network, and even more could arrive in the coming months after the United States ends a pandemic policy that made it easy to quickly expel unauthorized border crossers. Migrant aid groups across the state said they are working at or beyond their capacity to help thousands of Latin Americans and Haitians who have reached Massachusetts penniless after leaving home countries that are riven by political strife and street violence and where local economies have collapsed. Now, shelters are overflowing and the stat

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