Nell Salzman
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My story about the journey of a Venezuelan family from El Paso, TX to Chicago. For
@chicagotribune
with
@mandophotos
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Genesis was pregnant when she carried her husband, who became paralyzed from the chest down, and toddler across borders to get to the U.S.
Tuesday city officials at a shelter threw away the family’s immigration papers and their newborn’s birth certificate:
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Her husband was sitting in Walgreens when he learned shelter staff had thrown away their documents.
“We warned you,” a staffer said to him over the phone.
“When did you call me?” his voice cracked. “Can you check to see if the papers are under the mattress?” Photos
@mandophotos
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Around 12:30 a.m. Friday, the Tribune watched a charter bus from Texas drop off about 40 migrants in Glen Ellyn and then drive away. After missing the train, they stood outside in subfreezing temperatures wearing cotton T-shirts, pants and sandals.
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19–year-old Yolexi Cubillan trekked over 4,000 miles from Venezuela to Chicago in part so her baby could have a better future. On Sunday she gave birth to her son. The Venezuelan mother is one of hundreds of migrants to give birth in Chicago:
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After Chicago tightened rules for bus companies coming from the southern border, drivers have dropped off migrants at train stations outside of the city and bought them train fares to get downtown.
There is now a complete lack of coordination.
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The city concealed hundreds of migrants behind a black curtain at O’Hare Thursday night and after speaking to media, they were told not to. W /
@mandophotos
@royalpratt
@byaliceyin
@byaliceyin
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Today marks my one year at the Trib! So happy to be here and so grateful for all the wonderful people and journalists who have helped me along the way.
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Migrants in Chicago aren't getting enough food, and aren't getting the right food. In shelters, staff throw away much of the food migrants bring inside. For
@chicagotribune
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First time on
@wttw
! Honored to speak on a panel with a group of women I look up to on International Women's Day.
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Shivering, the migrants, who had traveled thousands of miles to make it to the sanctuary city of Chicago, stood at the station and looked at the yellow strung lights in the quiet suburb 30 miles from their destination.
They were puzzled. Glen Ellyn police were also confused.
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When they made it to Chicago, the group set off alone down West Madison Street in the cold Chicago air, holding a map.
They had no idea where they were going and got lost. They walked for almost half an hour. W/
@mandophotos
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Sleeping on the floor of a Chicago police station for weeks, some migrants say it’s still their best option.
@mandophotos
and I spent the night at a police station to get a sense of how it has been for them. For
@chicagotribune
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Migrants are being detained in Chicago for driving- or vehicle-related infractions, roughly at five times the rate from last summer.
Advocates say the solution is to allow them to apply for temporary driver’s licenses sooner. W/
@joemahr
@mandophotos
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I deleted an earlier tweet of city workers throwing away migrant belongings at the 1st District police station bc the caption was misleading: The items were thrown away after migrants & volunteers picked what families could take to the shelter, where they'll have limited space.
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Frangeny Mendoza and her family from Venezuela, who were put on a bus by the city of El Paso and sent to Chicago without knowing where they were going, spent their first three nights sleeping outside on the cold ground.
Thousands are sleeping outside:
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Read our deep dive into the past year of uncertainty faced by the 13,500+ migrants who’ve arrived in Chicago, about how City Hall and state decisions have worsened the crisis. For
@chicagotribune
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Proud to be in this with
@CTGuild
and to stand with my Tribune colleagues.
Chicago Tribune journalists are going on strike for 24 hours tomorrow for the first time in history.
@CTGuild
has bargained for a fair contract since 2018.
Alden responded by offering functional pay cuts & fewer benefits despite the Trib's profits. We're done playing games.
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The city and state are quickly moving migrants into homes on the South and West sides.
But it’s led to adjustments and friction — ranging from a child scared to go to a new school, to a mass shooting in front of a home where migrants had just moved.
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One volunteer is stepping up to help migrants who have traveled to Chicago with severe disabilities.
“They’ve done that alone, basically walking across a continent, and have kept their kids safe. These families should not have made it. And they did.”
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It was the first day of school Monday, but 6-year-old Hassly stood in line at a soup kitchen instead of a cafeteria lunch line. 8 migrant children in Woodlawn were turned away from school because there was no language support. For
@chicagotribune
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@chicagotribune
A story about Jessmar, 4, and her mother Jessana Malaue struggling to eat in Chicago, and food pantries seeing increased demand from migrants. W.
@talia_soglin
@mandophotos
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Chicago migrants report shelter staff limits hygiene products and say they fear retaliation for speaking out.
“You have to go up and ask for a pad and they ... make a note of where you’re sleeping so you can’t ask for more,” said a woman at a shelter.
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Esperanza, a mother from Venezuela, spent 14 hours in the hospital with her children while the family waited
to see a doctor. Their struggles to seek medical care are just one of the new hurdles the family face as the adjust to their new life in Chicago.
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The number of asylum-seekers in Chicago has surpassed 15,000 with the arrival of 27 buses since Saturday, including seven on Wednesday. Read about the bus depot:
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After a month of standing in Home Depot parking lots in Chicago hoping to find work, Rayni Cuadrado had finally found a day job.
But he isn’t part of the group of migrants who qualify for the nearly $500 work permit authorization.
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More than two dozen migrants were set to be kicked out of shelters Sunday but the eviction date brought confusion and unanswered questions from the city.
Census numbers are important to prevent homelessness and crime, said Ald. Andre Vasquez, 40th.
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After a lull at the beginning of this year, the number of buses bringing migrants to Chicago is up as border crossings have increased.
Experts who work at the border say migration numbers typically rise in the spring and summer. W/
@mandophotos
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The state is paying for migrants who want to leave Chicago.
Meanwhile, Gov. Pritzker proposed spending an additional $182 million on the migrant response during the state budget year that begins July 1.
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A 5-year-old migrant boy staying at a Pilsen shelter died Sunday evening after a medical emergency. His lips were blue and family members later told police that staff said the discoloration was “probably because of the cold."
W /
@JakeSheridan_
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Thousands of migrants have arrived with the help of prepaid airplane tickets from faith-based groups in San Antonio, the majority paid for by Catholic Charities there. With winter approaching, many of them have no place to sleep. For
@chicagotribune
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“They arrive. They’re starving. They don’t have any clothes. The babies have dirty diapers,” said Annie Gomberg, a volunteer at a police station on the West Side.
Mayor Brandon Johnson announced yesterday he plans to visit the border soon. w/
@byaliceyin
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This story is part of a series where
@mandophotos
and I followed a Venezuelan family from El Paso, TX to Chicago.
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Dinner from a local group of religious leaders on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter on the Lower West Side Monday evening in Chicago.
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Feeling lucky I got to collaborate with
@LAURA_N_ROD
on her recent story about asylum seekers in Chicago.
Faces of volunteers: They provide more than just donations and shelter to migrants in Chicago. They give love.
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Possibly older than Chicago, a centuries-old tree is cut down at Lincoln Park Zoo. For
@chicagotribune
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Joselin Mendoza is grateful to sleep on the floor of a basement with her two kids and 22 other migrants at a house in Roseland.
Chris Amatore, the owner, has resettled close to 500 migrants in 15 buildings, spending $150,000 of his own money, he said.
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A 5-year-old boy staying at a city shelter died Sunday after an ambulance was called too late.
Since the boy’s death, EMS calls haven’t stopped. Tuesday afternoon, we watched two ambulances come to the shelter in the course of three hours.
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Jessica Chirino & her family left Venezuela because of hyperinflation & crime in their home country. They're living in a police station because the city has no space.
“We’ve been through so much to get here, so much, for this." For
@chicagotribune
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City-run shelters are overcrowded and offering cold food, worse than conditions in police stations, people say. But neither media nor volunteers can enter. For
@chicagotribune
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Noelis, who is eight months pregnant, walked a mile from a shelter to a police station to receive prenatal care.
As volunteers step up to provide resources to migrants at police stations, some question the care provided at city-run shelters:
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Access to a quality education is especially crucial when migrant children are in a state of transition. Parents have found strength and resilience by enrolling their kids in school.
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Important work by
@LAURA_N_ROD
and
@talia_soglin
. Leaders are urging the federal government to expedite the process for migrants to get work permits:
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After traveling the distance from Venezuela to Chicago, some migrant families staying at police stations are separated by the city when they go to shelters. For
@chicagotribune
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New to Chicago, migrant family in mourning after their 11-month-old baby is killed in a car crash
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"This is temporary, but we all stay here, we’re from here, and we’ll be here," said Ald. Julia Ramirez at a crowded Brighton Park meeting about city plans to construct a migrant base camp.
Hundreds couldn't enter.
For
@chicagotribune
w/
@LAURA_N_ROD
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Officers escort a group east on West Roosevelt Road after a shooting took place when a large group of mostly young people gathered Saturday March 2, in Chicago.
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Many migrants say that conditions inside shelters are dire and dangerous and that they prefer to brave the cold and live outside.
From
@LAURA_N_ROD
, who spent time talking to people settled in makeshift houses outside police stations.
My latest: Some migrants in Chicago are leaving shelters or refusing to go into one despite the cold.
For many migrants, outdoor settlements offer more cultural familiarity than shelters.
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Yessir, if only you could do the dishes
@hanksanders_
NEWS: Calumet City mayor/state rep Thaddeus Jones is ticketing
@DailySouthtown
reporter
@hanksanders_
for “hampering” public employees with questions. Yes, hampering. Here’s our story on this matter
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Police say a man was shot in the head outside a migrant shelter in Gage Park Saturday afternoon. For
@chicagotribune
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Mary Otts-Rubenstein — who has her own child with disabilities — has been leading volunteer efforts for these children for over two months, stepping in where city officials have failed to identify and provide acceptable solutions for disabled migrants. For
@chicagotribune
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A girl missing from South Elgin for nearly six years was found safe in North Carolina last weekend after an employee of a used clothing store recalled seeing her plight chronicled on an episode of a Netflix program.
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@chicagotribune
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When Yolexi learned she was pregnant she was apprehensive. In Venezuela, she said, there aren’t resources for women like there are in the US. Women sometimes give birth in the seat of a car or on the ground, and don’t receive care afterward. She said many lose their children.
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Chicago suburbs have begun to crack down on buses carrying migrants after nearly 3,000 people have been dropped off at DuPage County train stations since mid-December.
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Beautiful story about coworkers banding together to support each other. Mayte Vera's quinceañera wouldn't have happened without their fundraising efforts. By the talented
@LAURA_N_ROD
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Dale Wheatley, who performs deliveries for the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, came into work two weeks ago and found three severed heads lying on a plastic container by his desk.
Read his story. For
@chicagotribune
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Migrant workers and activists gathered at Union Park on Monday to advocate for the rights of essential workers & for immigration reform.
“Our families have been here for decades, contributing to the economy,” said Saul Arellano. For
@chicagotribune
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A spokeswoman for the city denied that shelter staff was rationing essential supplies. But volunteers are concerned.
“They’re not giving migrants (supplies), and when someone does, they’re not allowed to bring them in,” said Maria Perez, a volunteer with Southwest Collective.
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Yolexi worried as she waited with her infant son and hundreds of other Venezuelans outside the Illinois Department of Human Services: Around her babies cried as men and women clutched folders while officers pushed migrants after the staff called for police
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Estás creciendo tú. Estás tan fuerte. You’re growing up. You’re so strong.
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100 migrants were flown to Chicago on a chartered plane from Texas Tuesday night.
Wednesday evening, a vigil was held for 5-year-old Jean Carlos who died at a shelter on the Lower West Side. The repeated chaos between governments is affecting thousands.
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Cook County recorded the deadliest year for opioid overdoses in 2022, according to the Cook County MEO. To respond to the increase, a new program called Project LIFE is offering injectable medication to patients in an emergency room setting.
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“Maybe right now we are going through a hard time, but I have hope that we will come out stronger,” Mendoza said. w/
@LAURA_N_ROD
&
@mandophotos
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Ford declined to comment when asked whether sending migrants into freezing temperatures without a place to stay could be considered dignified care.
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Medhat, a Palestinian American 10-year-old I met at a protest Saturday, held up a doll to represent the thousands of children who have died in airstrikes on Gaza.
‘Grief can do beautiful things’ - For
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w/
@tspraguephoto
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Take the time to read this story by
@CKubzansky
about the teenagers who have to grieve their siblings, and about what it's like to deal with major loss while trying to figure out who you are as a person.
Swaysiana Rankin was a bit of a loner even before her brother was shot and killed Sept. 4.
She is 17 and keeping to herself. Same for Harmony Goss, 16, pictured below. For
@chicagotribune
, about the teenagers who have to grieve their siblings.
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Jessana Malaue, from Venezuela, said migrant families are given just one blanket. Five others were transported to hospitals from the shelter in separate incidents Monday.
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@chicagotribune
And what happens to them here: Migrant family journeys back to Venezuela, more leaving Chicago as winter looms: ‘The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore’
@LAURA_N_ROD
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@mandophotos
The arrivals have spurred a wave of cities to pass ordinances restricting bus drop-offs.
However, Wilmette has adopted a welcoming posture. Volunteers coordinate with police to meet migrants at a moment’s notice to hand them care packages with coats and essential items.
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@mandophotos
Inside the brightly lit passenger car barreling toward Chicago, Stefania smiled. She was starving and exhausted but knew she was near the end of her journey.
The Venezuelan native had traveled for more than a year with her husband, Leonardo and two daughters under the age of 10.
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Jeisson Gutierrez Rojas, 27, sat outside a shuttered elementary school in Woodlawn that is now a shelter for migrants.
“All things considered, we’re really doing OK. We have a roof over our heads and a bed. A place to shower.” For
@chicagotribune
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“From our point of view, we want to make sure any client coming into our care is receiving the most dignified care possible. For right now, it is flying them to their final destination at their request,” Catholic Charities Spokesperson Tara Ford said.
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