If Gov. Maura Healey were serious about helping Joe Biden in the New Hampshire Jan. 23 presidential primary, she would enlist the support of Massachusetts’ growing illegal immigration community.

Getting the thousands of immigrants to campaign for Biden would not only help Biden win the primary—something he has failed to do– but give the immigrants some unofficial work experience pending approval of their official work permits.

They too will soon be granted the right to vote in state and federal elections after they get their drivers’ licenses, of course.

So, they could get the hang of voting in a democracy before it is shut down, as it is in the countries they came from.

The campaign would get them out of the hotel and motel rooms. And they could also learn English while on the job, along with the NH motto, “Live Free or Die,” soon to be adopted by Massachusetts.

The idea emerged in my brain following a Healey-led meeting last week aimed at recruiting volunteers to campaign for Biden in the Granite State by encouraging voters to vote for Biden as a write-in-candidate.

The use of the migrants—mostly unemployed young men—would give them the opportunity to help save democracy by helping to save Joe Biden.

Under Biden, the Democrats are determined to destroy democracy so they can save it.

It would also allow the immigrants a way of thanking the president for allowing them to invade the country.

Under Healey they could be trained to scour neighborhoods and knock on doors to get Democrats and undeclared voters, who can vote in either party’s primary,  to turn out and write in Joe Biden’s name.

While some New Hampshire residents might fear busloads of immigrants crossing into their state from Massachusetts, they have nothing to worry about.

Massachusetts progressive Gov. Healey is no conservative Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott. She is not about to pass the buck by busing migrants from Boston to Manchester the way Abbot is busing them from Eagle Pass to New York.

There will be no re-busing under her administration. Massachusetts is a welcoming state with liberal benefits for all arriving immigrants, legal or otherwise.  She has said so.

The 81-year old Biden is not on the NH Democratic Party ballot, of course. That is why the write-in campaign is so important.  Biden earlier chose to ignore the state which traditionally holds the first presidential primary in the nation, in favor of friendlier South Carolina.

But New Hampshire being New Hampshire, the state decided to hold the primary anyway, with or without Biden.

While there are 21 names on the Democrat ballot, the only two standouts are U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson.

If Biden tops the ticket as a write-in-candidate, his supporters will claim a major victory.

However, if Biden cannot even beat both as a write-in candidate, then he is in deeper trouble than the polls show, considering in addition to Healey, he also has supporters from the previous New Hampshire presidential primary campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigning for him.

Biden is lucky also that presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dropped out of the Democratic presidential race to run as an independent.

It was a huge mistake. Running as a Democrat, Kennedy had the potential to clean Biden’s clock in New Hampshire. Running as a third-party candidate he has turned into a spoiler.

Healey has a lot riding on a Biden victory, both in New Hampshire and elsewhere. Unlike former Gov. Charlie Baker, her predecessor, who distanced himself from presidential politics, Healey has chosen to get involved.

She is on Biden’s national campaign advisory board as well as serving as a campaign surrogate.

If Biden wins in New Hampshire, she wins. If Biden loses, she loses too.

And the migrants keep coming.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate for president, announces he has qualified for the 2024 presidential ballot in Utah at a campaign event last week in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)