As migrants pour into the United States at extremely high levels, poor Americans suffer.

Blue states with right-to-shelter laws that lack residency requirements are offering temporary shelter to immigrants as they would for any homeless person. Given the high influx of immigrants, these states and communities are now putting immigrants in hotels on the taxpayers’ dime. Sadly, this is having a terrible impact on the poor.

In Massachusetts , motels have responded to the migrant crisis by raising prices. Since the state will put nonresidents, who keep coming to the Bay State each day, up in motels, the motel owners know they can make more money by charging more. So motel rooms that would ordinarily cost $79 or $89 per night are now $199 per night in some instances, according to WBUR . A different motel upped its weekly rate from $600 to $1,000, the report said.

These high prices have driven poor people to homelessness as they cannot afford the rate the state is willing to pay. Brenda Banville and her adult son are now living out of their car in a McDonald's parking lot after the motel they called home for about a year was among those that hiked its nightly rate. Those two are not the only Bay Staters who have been pushed to homelessness by these rising costs, according to the report.

To make matters worse, the influx of immigrants also means that Massachusetts will not have the capacity to honor its right-to-shelter law starting next month, according to Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA). So, because the state has a large influx of non-Americans in its shelter system, including those staying in motels, it will lack the necessary resources to care for homeless people from Massachusetts. That’s in addition to the perverse incentives in place that are driving Bay Staters to homelessness by increasing demand for previously cheap housing and motels.

The problem could not come at a worse time as the temperature drops in the fall. Boston, by no means the coldest part of Massachusetts, typically gets its first snowfall in late November, though snow in October is not unheard of, especially in the central and western parts of the state.

All of this is, unfortunately, happening because liberal politicians refuse to put Americans first. The Biden administration refuses to secure the southern border , leading to an influx of people entering the country, and liberal politicians in blue states incentivize the swell of people to their respective communities. Whether it’s a lack of residency requirements in right-to-shelter laws or providing government benefits to illegal immigrants such as driver's licenses, in-state tuition, or access to some welfare programs, liberals find ways to attract these people to their communities.

Massachusetts could begin to fix this problem by putting a residency requirement on its right-to-shelter law. However, the state has a liberal governor and supermajorities in both legislative chambers — and its state Senate rejected a budget amendment that would have done that earlier this year. Hopefully, as the problem worsens, the state legislature reconsiders because while politicians get to virtue signal, poor people are suffering.

Tom Joyce ( @TomJoyceSports ) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.