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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

A year in, Chicago’s migrant crisis shows no sign of letting up

Rosa Escobal Torrelles holds her son while speaking to a medical professional at an asylum seeker encampment outside the District 1 Chicago police station. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Nearly a year ago, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing asylum seekers to Chicago.

It felt like an ambush. Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration had heard rumblings it could happen here when Abbott started using vulnerable, desperate migrants as pawns by sending them — without notice — to other liberal-leaning cities, to the cheers of many conservatives. 

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