CHICAGO — As tens of thousands of delegates and guests arrive for the Democratic National Convention, they will encounter a sight familiar to Chicagoans but startling to most out-of-towners: clusters of migrants from Central and South America, congregating in parks, near highway overpasses and in the Loop, where women and small children on sidewalks sell candy or plead for money with cardboard signs. Two years after a surge of migrants began arriving at the nation’s southern border, the crisis continues to play out on Chicago’s streets.
For Conventiongoers in Chicago, the Issue of Migrants Comes Into Full View
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