By Alison Kuznitz House Democrats on Friday defeated a Republican bid to restrict migrants’ access to the state’s overflowing emergency family shelter system, a day after the Legislature shipped a supplemental budget to Gov. Maura Healey that would impose a new nine-month limit on shelter stays. With House Speaker Ron Mariano at the rostrum, lawmakers rejected amendments … Continue reading House Democrats Reject Giving Massachusetts Homeless Veterans Preference Over Migrants in Shelter System