‘Emergency situation’: Plymouth leaders scramble to help after dozens of migrants arrive in town

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Plymouth leaders speak out after dozens of migrants arrived in South Shore towns this week.

Plymouth’s town manager, Derek Brindisi, said during a news conference Thursday afternoon they got a call from the state on Tuesday telling them to find housing for 27 families that were expecting to arrive in Plymouth Wednesday.

Brindisi said eleven families, including 24 children have already arrived in the town and have been placed in hotel rooms. About half of those children need to be placed in schools, according to officials.

This comes just days after more than 100 migrants were placed in hotels in Kingston and just two weeks since the state Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) placed about fifty immigrants in a Days Hotel in Methuen — but never told the city’s mayor.

Brindisi said it has been a challenge to figure out how to help all of these families.

“We pride ourselves on planning we like to lean forward here in this community and we would have hoped we would have been a part of the planning process early on so that this would have been a more seamless transition to our community,” Brindisi said.

According to the state the migrants have been placed in temporary housing and they should be moved to a more permanent place by January.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.

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