The border crisis in Massachusetts escalated on Wednesday when residents of Roxbury, a traditionally black neighborhood in Boston, were informed that a local recreation center would be closed to the public. The closure includes all activities and youth programs to accommodate hundreds of illegal immigrants.
Protesters, some armed with bullhorns—many with signs including one that read “Boston Is Full, Our Kids Come Last Why????”—gathered outside the Melnea Cass Recreation Complex on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.