Hidden behind a heavy black curtain in one of the nation’s busiest airports is Chicago’s unsettling response to a growing population of asylum seekers arriving by plane.
As more migrants arrived, the city’s existing services were strained.
She fled her native Venezuela five years ago for Peru, where her daughter was born. After her daughter’s father was killed, she left. The company, Favorite Healthcare Staffing, said employees treat new arrivals with respect and it would investigate further. At O’Hare, migrants have spread out beyond the curtain for more space, sleeping along windows. Travelers wheeling suitcases and airline staff catching buses whiz by, some stopping to take pictures.
They serve 190,000 meals weekly and partner with groups for medical care, but still rely heavily on volunteers to fill gaps.“Is it perfect? No. But what we have done is stood in our values to ensure that we live up to operationalizing a sanctuary city,” she said. “We will continue to work on it, but we are holding the line.”At Boston’s Logan International Airport, migrants who arrive overnight are given cots for a few hours before being sent elsewhere.
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