Fury in historic northeast city as officials use school buses for MIGRANTS, axing local kids' service

Parents in a Boston exurb have reacted angrily to revelations that schools are axing buses for local children — but keeping them running for the kids of migrants and asylum seekers. Parents in the Boston exurb of Stoughton are furious that 150 students are losing their school bus service when term starts next month Stoughton schools chief Joseph Baeta cuts buses for American kids but keeps a special service for migrants running Others complained that the town of 30,000 people was 'losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue' from its hotels being crammed with migrant families instead of tourists and business visitors. Though cutting services for some students, Baeta said two buses would serve migrant children living in the town's hotels and shelters. Even though some non-legal migrants will work and pay taxes, this revenue will not come close to the cost of social services for all 355,000 of them, says report author Jessica Vaughan. Some 30 migrant families were bedding down in the Terminal E at Boston's Logan International Airport in January The influx of migrants has further strained social services in a state that was already battling troubling levels of homelessness Massachusetts already spends $1 billion each year on emergency shelters, but Vaughan says this masks the real cost on taxpayers.