June 23, 2024

Immigration

Epoch Times - U.S. Customs and Border Protection  officials have reported a 25 percent reduction in apprehensions of illegal immigrants between ports of entry along the U.S.–Mexico border in the two weeks...

NPR - Chicago has struggled to care for migrants who arrived from the border for the past two years. About 30,000 of them are from Venezuela, where the economy has collapsed. As vast as that number is, it hardly compares to the amount of Venezuelans who have immigrated to neighboring Colombia in the past decade. More than 600,000 have traveled to the capital city, Bogotá. WBEZ's Chip Mitchell and Anthony Vazquez traveled to two cities in Colombia last spring to document how the country has handled their arrival. Through interviews with migrants, public officials, humanitarian leaders and scholars, they learned what Colombia could teach Chicago and other U.S. cities about managing future large arrivals.

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