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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

Third wave of immigrants arrives in Chicago from Texas

A group of immigrants arrive Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, at a Salvation Army shelter in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. For the third time in a week, Texas officials sent individuals arrive at the southern U.S. border to Chicago. (Elvia Malagón/Sun-Times)

A woman carrying a toddler, and a boy holding the hand of a smaller boy, were among a group who arrived Wednesday at a Humboldt Park shelter that is serving as a refuge for immigrants being sent to Chicago from the Texas border.

For the third time in a week, Texas officials sent busloads of immigrants to Chicago as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to send people arriving at the southern border into Democrat-led cities such as New York and Washington D.C.

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