EV Vol. 33, No.7 -FREEEVE ER TT Your Local News & Sports Online in 6 Languages! Scan & Subscribe Now! ADDOCCO TEAT www.advocatenews.net Free Every Friday Back-to-Back for Everett’s Borgonzi 617-387-2200 Friday, February 16, 2024 Rep. Joe McGonagle is running for reelection State Rep. Joe McGonagle, shown with campaign worker Ronnie Senna, were out recently in Everett Square gathering signatures for the 2024 reelection. The popular State Rep. said he’s excited to be out campaigning and to have the opportunity to continue representing the great City of Everett. (Courtesy photo) State, City providing resources to Kansas City Chiefs Assistant General Manager Mike Borgonzi, his wife, Jill, and son, Joseph, are shown proudly posing with the Super Bowl trophy after the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in overtime, 25-22, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Feb. 11. Mike and Jill also have a daughter, Nina. See story on page 4. (Courtesy photo /X) migrant students in Everett schools By Neil Zolot T SINCE 1921 Messinger Insurance Agency 475 Broadway Everett, MA 02149 Phone: 617-387-2700 Fax: 617-387-7753 NEW COMPETITIVE AUTO RATES AND BENEFITS AVAILABLE ACCIDENT FORGIVENESS DISAPPEARING COLLISION DEDUCTIBLE 11% DISCOUNT WITH SUPPORTING POLICY 10% COMBINED PAY IN FULL DISCOUNT AND GREEN DISCOUNT 10% GOOD STUDENT DISCOUNT Celebrating 100 years of excellence! Monday thru Friday: 8am to 6pm Saturdays 9am to 1pm! Check out our NEW website! www.messingerinsurance.com hey’re visible, yet invisible, known and unknown, remembered and forgotten and on people’s radar, yet below it. Of the 249 homeless students in Everett, 52 are classifi ed as migrants, essentially immigrants who have not found permanent housing. Mainly from Latin America, many are living in hotels and shelters, some with extended family. “Just fi nding a permanent place to live is hard for migrants, especially when they don’t have enough money to get an apartment,” Antonio Amaya, founder and director of La Comunidad, a nonprofi t organization that provides support for the local Latino-American community, said. “It takes time to get adapted to the system. If you’re in a hotel and your kids are going to school, I think it’s much harder because there isn’t a steady address. The children also have to adapt from another country, which can be diffi - cult because of diff erences in the language used and the weather.” They also have to re-readjust if permanent or semipermanent housing is found in another community. The infl ux of students is not a problem, but is an issue. Everett receives $104 per day for every student through the state Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). “No community wants to add students, but it happens all the time,” Eliot Family Resource Center Director of Community Engagement Liliana Patino pointed out. “Everett was lucky in being able to handle this from the beginning of the school year.” Both the International Institute of New England and International Catholic Migration Commission defi ne a migrant as someone moving within a country or internationally, usually for economic reasons (i.e., a job) without necessarily intending to stay in their new location. An imRESOURCES | SEE PAGE 7
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