Okay locals, I have been doing online research all evening. I need your insight to the area. Here's my thoughts....
Since law enforcement has stated that pollen testing has spent several weeks in the greater Boston area AND isotope testing has shown that baby doe has spent time in Boston BUT MORE IMPORTANT she was migratory, spending time in a variety of areas across the U.S. (And this would support the theory why no one recognizes her as she isn't a child with roots held in one area for long), I'm concluding that her family travel for employment, and something has brought them to the greater Boston area.
We know she was most likely there throughout the month of June. So what migratory jobs in or around Boston would bring someone or a small family in for the summer, or a month? Since she's unreported by family, and we can presume family is most likely involved in the child's placement on the beach without getting LE involved, she very well may be from an undocumented migrant family. She herself may be US born or perhaps undocumented herself, or she may have one of two family members that are undocumented. Or both may be US citizens or documented but for reasons of their own (past or current criminal involvement/foul play in child's death/previously experienced profiling by LE) chose to not involve LE... SO WHAT BRINGS MIGRANTS INTO THE EASTERN MASS AREA DURING MAY/JUNE?
Fairs/carnivals/circus performs - can you think of any in town for two-four weeks or longer?
Migrant farm workers? Can we get a list of the farms in Middlesex, Essex, Boston, Norfolk that use migrant workers?
Food processing workers (a list of food processing plants in or near the Boston area)?
I found out that there are several sanctuary cities in Mass, for those that may not know, a sanctuary city will ignore immigration laws in order to attract workers. Those close to Boston MA are: Cambridge, Somerville, and Chelsea. So if we can focus on any migrant employers (farms/food processors) in those counties they would be the employers near greater Boston area that may have employed baby Does family member if the family did indeed have an illegal family member (and very likely).
Of course, not to rule out that they were not illegal, just dodging LE involvement, it would be wise to include any/all migrant employers in or around the Boston area.
After considering migrant employers, it's quite possible that the family was migrant but found perm employment in Boston and was no longer migrant (Boston MA and the general area of MA has a very diverse culture workforce I've learned, approx 24% of their workforce is made up documented immigrant workers. Many are documented, have college degrees, and own homes, but there is also a large documented population that works in: mfg (24%,), entertainment/recreation/hospitality (23%), professional previously mentioned (20%), construction (17%). And the remaining are misc jobs. Also about 2% of the population is undocumented workers, this is probably where many of the migrant jobs are held (2,530 farms in MA in 2014 employed 15,649 workers, many seasonally.). Source: migrant policy.org.
Therefore, if the family now has/did have stable, non migrant employment and is/was living in the greater Boston area, they could be working in any of these areas.
The majority of the immigrant workers in MA are from: Mexico, China, India, Philippines, El Salvador, Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, Dominican Republic, Guatemala. But most workers in or near greater Boston in the largest industries in that area, mfg and hospitality, come from: Brazil and Dominican Republic. Although she doesn't fit the profile of some, Our lil angel could very well be from one of these countries as her birth origin. Perhaps when the isotope study finishes we can narrow that down as well.
Anyone have any thoughts on migrant employment in the greater Boston area?
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