Migrant families will no longer be allowed to sleep overnight at Logan Airport, Gov. Healey says Boston 25 News [Video]

BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday that migrant families will no longer be permitted to sleep overnight at Boston’s Logan International Airport come July.

The Healey-Driscoll administration said that the decision comes as a result of recent efforts to open a new safety-net site at the old Norfolk prison, move more families out of shelters, and share a message at the U.S. southern border that Massachusetts is out of shelter space.

Families currently sleeping at Logan will be forced to leave the airport as of Tuesday, July 9. Those who are on the Emergency Assistance shelter waitlist will be offered transfers to the state’s new safety-net system, including in Norfolk, which opened this week and will accommodate up to 140 families at full capacity.

The number of migrants sleeping at Terminal E has been an issue for months. The crowding recently led to a physical altercation between two migrant families inside the terminal.

Staff at Logan will work with families to inform …