The migrant crisis, via Chicago

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Around 50,000 migrants have poured into Chicago in the last two years. Some Chicagoans are furious. We talk to residents, clergy, and migrants on Chicago's South Side about an issue that may be Kamala Harris's biggest liability. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Avishay Artsy, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Photo by Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Democrats brought their biggest party to Chicago this week.
0:04.0	Chicago!
0:05.0	It's good to be home!
0:09.0	A lot of joy.
0:10.0	Chicago's also had a rough few years.
0:12.0	The only way Chicago survives set our laws and we enforce our laws.
0:18.0	The South Side is a troubled spot.
0:20.0	It's very segregated, predominantly black.
0:22.0	It is chronically,, predominantly black.
0:22.5	It is chronically, and some say almost criminally
0:25.3	under-resourced.
0:26.4	When we ask and say what we want, we are still ignored.
0:30.9	Now two summers ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott started busing migrants into Chicago.
0:35.6	More came to from Denver and Mexico and people who already felt left behind got very angry.
0:41.4	What is this like they setting up job training for?
0:44.3	Is that a bad thing if they're setting up job training for people?
0:46.8	Why do you know saying up job training for us?
0:49.0	Immigration may be the Democrats biggest liability and a crisis is unfolding just a couple miles away from
0:55.2	the DNC.
0:56.2	That's coming up next on Today Explained.
1:01.1	Support for the show comes from Into the mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Fox Creative.
1:08.0	Along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, there is a stretch of land nicknamed Cancer Alley because the cancer
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