Maura Healey actually said...

"[T]here now exists in the Commonwealth a state of emergency due to rapid and unabating increases in the number of families with children and pregnant [women]--many of them new arriving migrants and re..."

"There now exists in the Commonwealth a state of emergency due to rapid and unabating increases in the number of families with children and pregnant women, many of them new arriving migrants and refuge..."

"It sends a horrible message."

"You don't get accountability without knowing what's going on and then holding those who did the wrong accountable."