Chicagoans are stepping up to help migrants bussed from Texas

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is bussing droves of migrants across the country to sanctuary cities like Chicago.

By Brenda Ruiz
Migrant welcome center
City workers and volunteers from nonprofit organizations welcome migrants who were bused to Chicago from Texas this week as they arrive Thursday morning at the North Park Village Nature Center administration building on Chicago’s far North Side. The volunteers provided the migrants with food, clothes, toys and medical care. Esther Yoon-Ji Kang / WBEZ News
Migrant welcome center
City workers and volunteers from nonprofit organizations welcome migrants who were bused to Chicago from Texas this week as they arrive Thursday morning at the North Park Village Nature Center administration building on Chicago’s far North Side. The volunteers provided the migrants with food, clothes, toys and medical care. Esther Yoon-Ji Kang / WBEZ News

Chicagoans are stepping up to help migrants bussed from Texas

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is bussing droves of migrants across the country to sanctuary cities like Chicago.

By Brenda Ruiz
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More than a hundred migrants, many of them from central and South America, have arrived in Chicago in the past week.

Reset hears from organizers who are helping them get settled with shelter, clothing and support in the asylum process.

GUEST: Ed Pratt, executive director of Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants

Veronica Castro, deputy director at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Reverend Sandra Castillo, retired priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, serves as the chair of the Diocese of Chicago’s Sanctuary Task Force