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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

MYSTERIOUS: Don t be like texas murph - What They Never Told You

A Colombian immigrant waits to be processed in May by U.S. Border Patrol agents outside a closed migrant encampment near the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

There are a lot of heartless people. They held a festival on social media after I wrote Monday about how Chicago could do a better job housing refugees shipped here from Texas. I wish I could address the top 25 reactions. One will have to do:

“Multiply all this by hundreds and you have what Texas has put up with for years,” a reader from Murphy, Texas — let’s call him “Murph” — wrote on Facebook. “Sorry, but BS. I’ve had my car struck twice by uninsured motorists with no papers. More than half the patients in the Dallas County public hospital were undocumented. The strain is enormous, on all services and neighborhoods.”

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