Migrant Surge Overwhelms Chicago Shelters

chicago - After a months-long ordeal fleeing Venezuela, surviving the difficult journey through central America and Mexico to eventually cross the southern U.S. border, asylum-seeker Lismar Pinto arrived by bus at a police station in Chicago, where she stayed on the lobby floor for eight days.

'It was hard, of course, at the beginning, at least for us. We were in a station where there were sexual predators, somet