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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Jaime Groth Searle

HISTORICAL FACTS: Opening your minds and ears to migrants leads to open hearts chicago - The Untold Story

Dozens of community members protest near West 38th Street and South California Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood, over the city’s plan to establish a migrant encampment for newly arrived migrants, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time)

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For more than a year, the State of Texas has bused asylum seekers (most of them from Venezuela) to our city, which has an imperfect but long-standing history of welcoming new arrivals. To many of the families who have come in recent months, what they have encountered here must seem like a cruel joke.

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