CHICAGO — Sitting under a tree on the grass next to a hotel in a southwest suburb of Chicago, several migrant families from Venezuela were talking, still...
Menendez and the rest of the families that sat under the tree were among the dozens of refugees transported from a shelter in Humboldt Park to a hotel in Burr Ridge on Wednesday.
Migrants sent to Burr Ridge said they are grateful for shelter and the assistance they are getting, but have concerns being in Burr Ridge. Other grassroots activists and elected officials have also voiced their concern that the steps the state and city are taking to not only welcome migrants, but to provide them with a comprehensive guide to establish themselves in the Chicago area, are not enough.
Another bus of migrants arrived in Chicago over the weekend with more than 50 people looking for new beginnings. And more than 150 asylum-seekers arrived in three more buses on Wednesday afternoon. But Menendez and Velazquez said that they are still waiting to follow up with the agencies and organizations they were connected to at the shelter they were welcomed in. Before a representative of the Illinois Department of Human Services approached them to prohibit them from speaking to reporters, the mothers shared their concern about not having better access to find schools for their children.
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