Chicago Asylum Seeker Clips – October 7, 2024

WBEZ Chicago: Organizers try to calm chaos at a South Side Home Depot where migrants look for work

Hyde Park Herald: From Venezuela to Augustana: Hyde Parker’s new play follows international journey

WGN Chicago: Chicago closes two migrant shelters, reducing available beds to 2,600

Borderless: Chicago’s Largest Migrant Shelter Shutters After Troubling Year

Fox News: ‘Dangerous’ migrant is person of interest in shooting death of 17-year-old Chicago girl

National News

The New York Times: Trump Takes Aim at Legal Immigration (share link)

The Washington Post: Immigration advocates keep quiet as Harris talks tough on border

NBC News: What economists say about JD Vance’s claim that immigrants drive up housing costs

“Housing is expensive in the U.S., but many economists caution that connecting rising numbers of immigrants to housing costs is no simple thing.”

The Atlantic: The Truth About Immigration and the American Worker

“In many domains, the conventional wisdom among progressives is mistaken, oversimplified, or based on wishful thinking. The economics of immigration is not one of them.”

New York Times: ‘Quiet Place’ in Pennsylvania Is Thrust Into Loud Immigration Debate

Reuters: Trump escalates harsh rhetoric against immigrants, Harris

“His speech was unusually devoted almost entirely to undocumented immigrants. He called those who had committed violent crime “monsters,” “stone-cold killers” and “vile animals”.

CBS News: Harris vows to keep Biden’s border crackdown: “The United States is a sovereign nation”

New York Times: Harris, at the Border, Shows Democrats’ Hard-Line Evolution on Immigration