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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jaime Groth Searle

Opening your minds and ears to migrants leads to open hearts, Chicago

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)

Welcome to Chicago.

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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