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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Stories you can’t tell on the migrant beat

Edgar Nuñez Aponte, 52, a migrant from Venezuela, sits on his bunk in his room at Starting Point Community Church in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Edgar Nuñez Aponte, a recent migrant arrival, has an earthy sense of humor that belies the reasons why he came to Chicago. The gaping hole where his four front teeth should be provides a clue.

“They knocked them out,” Aponte, 52, told me when I was out on assignment recently. He motioned as if he were hitting something with the butt of a rifle.

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