As winter approaches, and still not enough shelters for migrants, a countless number of them are choosing to leave Chicago in recent weeks in their search for a better life.
Over the past five months since arriving in Chicago, Andrea Carolina Sevilla’s parents have been unable to enroll her in school even though the reason they left everything behind in their native Venezuela was for her to have access to better education. In Venezuela, she said, she was lucky she could even attend school. Many other teenagers start working at an early age to help out their families, who often face extreme poverty.
But the work was heavy and the pay was not enough, he said, so he left. Unable to pay rent, the family returned to the 1st District station, where they waited about two weeks before packing their belongings, mostly collected through donations, and headed back to Venezuela. As the patriarch, he said he felt powerless not being able to provide for his wife and daughter, he said. “How many more months of living in the streets will it take? No, no more. It’s better that I leave.
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