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Immigrants load a bus outside Union Station in August 2022, when migrants from Venezuela were transported from Texas and dropped off in Chicago.

Immigrants load a bus outside Union Station in August 2022, when migrants from Venezuela were transported from Texas and dropped off in Chicago.

Anthony Vazquez

Immigrants load a bus outside Union Station in August 2022, when migrants from Venezuela were transported from Texas and dropped off in Chicago.

Immigrants load a bus outside Union Station in August 2022, when migrants from Venezuela were transported from Texas and dropped off in Chicago.

Anthony Vazquez

Chicago migrants faces challenges accessing mental health care

Experts say migrants experience high levels of stress from the journey and the uncertainty of their legal status in the U.S.

Immigrants load a bus outside Union Station in August 2022, when migrants from Venezuela were transported from Texas and dropped off in Chicago.

Anthony Vazquez

   

Many migrants arrive in Chicago with little knowledge of where they’ll sleep or how they’ll access food and care, especially mental health care.

Reset hears about one migrant’s experience and what support that community needs most.

GUESTS: Elvia Malagón, reports on social justice, immigration and income inequality for the Chicago Sun-Times

Aimee Hilado, assistant professor, UChicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, Chair of Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health

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