As more migrants are expected to arrive in Chicago, others wait in a hotel in nearby suburb for a final step: ‘I’m grateful but I also feel stuck here’
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 wondering why they had been relocated so far from the city in which they arrived.
“I’m grateful, but we feel stuck here,” Matilde Menendez said in Spanish.
Her family — one daughter and her husband — arrived in Chicago more than a week ago in the first buses of migrants that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent to Chicago as a way to criticize the nation’s immigration policies and his promise to send asylum-seekers to sanctuary cities.
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
