Massport Let Thousands of Migrants Crash at Boston Logan Airport

It took a while, but the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) has complied with a Congressional committee request by turning over documents concerning the number of migrants allowed to shelter at Boston Logan International Airport and the cost to taxpayers.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, issued a subpoena to force the release of documents the committee sought last year.

Fox News Digital reports Massport "estimated that more than 5,000 migrants arrived at Logan between July 2023 and July 2024." The website says Massport documents referred to the arrival of 5,500 migrants as "unprecedented."

Get our free mobile app

Fox 25 Boston says, "Massport is revealing a price tag of $799,000 connected to thousands of migrants sleeping at Logan International Airport through some of last summer."

The average cost per day was $2,520.

The station says, "Massport is also now disclosing that $332,000 was 'incorporated into airline's rates and charges paid by air carriers."

Some nights more than 260 migrants sheltered at Logan Airport. The migrants were reportedly confined to a 4,100-foot area of Terminal E. Massport documents indicate that there were "time-to-time minor conflicts" from migrants but none required arrests or criminal charges.

Spectrum News says Massachusetts Democrat U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, called the probe into Massport "a fishing expedition."

Spectrum News reports that at a recent committee hearing, Markey called Cruz's efforts "unfair, unnecessary, and unprecedented."

Migrants were ultimately barred from using Logan Airport for shelter in July 2024 and were moved into taxpayer-funded shelter locations elsewhere in Massachusetts.