Chicago Asylum Seeker Clips – September 19, 2024

Sunday, September 22, the first in a 3-performance run of a staged reading of the play My Name Is Renny Edward Milano Salgado will show at 1:30pm at Second Unitarian Church in Chicago. This is a play by mutual aid volunteer Fran Zell, based on her experiences volunteering with new arrivals. Read more about the play and the upcoming performances here.

WBEZ Chicago: Chicago organizers work to ease Black-brown tension over the influx of migrants

ABC Chicago: Chicago expected to release plans to combine shelter system for homeless, migrants

Chicago Sun-Times (column by Neil Steinberg): What do Haitians really eat?

Never forget that racism is a form of ignorance. Stupidity rampant. People imagine bigots come to their beliefs the way most of us do, through experience and consideration. They don’t.”

National News

New York Times/The Morning: The Stakes on Immigration

NPR: Vance says Haitian migrants with protected status are ‘illegal aliens’ to be deported

ABC News: Springfield conspiracy theories underscore the evolution of GOP rhetoric on immigration

The New Republic: Trump’s Immigration Plan Just Went to a Terrifying New Extreme

“Donald Trump has essentially endorsed ethnic cleansing in the United States.”