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    Vigil for 5-year-old migrant boy draws hundreds; advocates demand better

    by Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune Dec 20, 2023 3 minutes
    Volunteers, activists and members of the community attend a vigil for 5- year-old Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero, who died over the weekend at a Lower West Side neighborhood shelter in Chicago, on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023.

    CHICAGO — Hundreds gathered outside a migrant shelter on the Lower West Side Wednesday night, three days after a 5-year-old migrant staying there died in a medical emergency that has confused and frustrated migrants, volunteers and health care advocates.

    For advocates, the death of Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero is a symbol of the effects of repeated chaos between governments struggling to house and care for record numbers of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border.

    “When there are folks who are sending (migrants) from the border, coming to us from Texas, and not really respecting human life,

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