It was liberal Bostonians who kept the demonic Ted Kennedy in office for 36 years so he could implement his destructive immigration and abortion policies.
The last big immigration bill (Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986, though it neither controlled nor reformed it) was created in Congress by Democrats and Republicans (including those from red states like Arizona, South Carolina and Texas), and signed into law by one of the greatest conservative presidents ever to be elected.
The problem is not Massachusetts per se, but liberalism specifically.
And this "Lucy and the Football" approach to "solving" immigration (by giving complete amnesties every twenty five years or so) is insulting.