A Massachusetts couple welcomed at least four “lovely” illegal immigrants into their Brookline, Massachusetts, home after the migrants had been sleeping at Boston Logan International Airport.

After hearing the immigrants desperately needed better conditions, Colin and Jessica Stokes called the state to volunteer to be a host family, and less than an hour later, four immigrants showed up at their door, according to a report.

“I was like, I have to get sheets on the beds. How many people are coming? Where are they from? What ages?” Jessica Stokes said. “We really knew nothing.”

“The need is so clearly overwhelming,” according to Colin Stokes.

The new residents of the Stokes household are a family of four that traveled from Chile to Texas before arriving in Massachusetts.

“It boggles the mind that there are so many hundreds of those stories and those people who are in such a stressful, traumatic transition,” Colin Stokes said.

The adoption of an entire illegal immigrant family by the Stokes family comes as Boston City Councilwoman Julia Mejia begs the greater Boston area to take in immigrants.

“Cities and towns that have so much more resources than the city of Boston. … I think everybody needs to start opening up their doors because this is a shared responsibility,” Mejia said.

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At least one emergency immigrant shelter in Roxbury hit its 400-person capacity in a week, and Jessica Stokes described the situation as “disheartening.”

“Just the dysfunction is really disheartening, and I know that really well-intentioned people are working as hard as they can. It’s a state of emergency,” she said. “But it is distressing to see the volume.”