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It's getting harder, not easier, to find housing in Bloomington-Normal, according to an updated report from the McLean County Housing Coalition on area housing and homelessness.
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As head of the Normal-based nonprofit Immigration Project, Charlotte Alvarez connects immigrants living in 86 Illinois counties with legal aid and social service organizations as they navigate a convoluted, inefficient system.
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The mayor of Bloomington said he's glad the community had the discussion about spending public dollars on services to migrants who might be bused from the border to central Illinois. Mboka Mwilambwe said he's also pleased the McLean County Board rejected the proposed ban on such spending last week.
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An immigration rights advocate says more than 75 migrants bused from the southern border since 2022 are already living in McLean County.
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Illinois has been historically strong in immigration. For decades, its numbers were right up there with the four border states near Mexico. That has ebbed in recent years, starting with the overall decline following the Great Recession and then during the Trump administration that imposed additional restrictions.
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Twin City immigration advocates are cheering the Biden administration's move to expand work permits for asylum seekers from Venezuela, but they'd like to see more done to help those from other countries where residents are fleeing.
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A coalition called BN Welcoming is using national Welcoming Week to remind Bloomington-Normal about the economic impact that immigrants have on the community.
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The impact of the state’s backtrack on noncitizen health care remains to be seen. What’s clear is that immigrants in McLean County have come to rely on this short-lived expanded access to health care.
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Five people and four generations of Zhanna Shypulia's family have moved nearly a dozen times since Russia invaded her home city of Kherson in February. They don't plan to go back.
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The 11,800 immigrants who call Bloomington-Normal home pay $73 million in taxes and contribute $1.2 billion towards the county’s domestic product, according to data provided Friday to an audience attending The Immigration Project’s fundraising event at Illinois State University.