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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

An immigrant’s life: City of opportunity brings struggle for stability

Immigrants from Venezuela were transported from Texas and dropped off at Union Station in August. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file photo)

In the two months since his arrival in the United States, an immigrant from Venezuela has been bounced from Texas to Arizona to Florida to shelters in the Chicago area.

This summer, he left his four children with relatives, and he and his wife departed their native Venezuela in search of better jobs and medical care for her. Since then, the man — who asked not to be identified — has spent days walking the streets of Miami and later Chicago to try and find work to stabilize his family’s finances.

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