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Two years ago, news highlighting an uptick in Haitian migrants arriving in Massachusetts made headlines, a reality brought on by worsening socio-political conditions in Haiti. I watched news clips of families sleeping on the floors of Boston Logan International Airport, waiting to be placed in a temporary shelter. I reported on how Massachusetts and Boston converted a community center in Roxbury, a historically Black neighborhood, into temporary shelter space, in the face of local backlash. When I learned that hotels sheltering
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