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.
“They’ve treated us well, but they’re not telling us what’s going on or where are we going next,” said Eglee Velazquez, a mother of three. “We need a home, my husband needs a job and my kids need to go to school. We are tired.” Enriquez and several volunteers from the organization were at Union Station when the first buses from Texas arrived and have been in contact with some migrants despite not working with the city or the state officially. The group has connected some migrants to jobs and a permanent place to live. They also have given them clothes and activated several phones lines for them.
Also on Wednesday, 64 of those migrants were temporally placed in a Burr Ridge hotel, according to a statement from Mayor Grasso. Village elected officials and staff were not consulted or contacted about the decision to move the migrants from the Salvation Army Shield of Hope shelter to the village, the statement said.
Erendira Rendon, vice president of Immigrant Justice at The Resurrection Project, said that the city and state are working together to figure out what the next steps look like for all the families and individual asylum-seekers in Chicago. “But it is complicated and it takes time. Like so many immigrants before us, with some help, we can help figure it out.”
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