A Venezuelan Exodus: UIC Prof Explains What Helped Fuel Migrant Crisis, Pt. 1

Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Over the last year and a half, Chicago’s Sanctuary City designation has been tested. As of August 2022, the city has absorbed over 21,700 migrants, spreading them throughout. The influx of migrants raises one simple question among many Chicagoans: “What’s going on in Venezuela? Followed by, “Is it that bad that they have to come all the way here?” 

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