Immigrant health care workers tend to migrants arriving in Chicago – Chicago Tribune

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On a cold December day, a little over 50 years ago, Pilar Guerrero arrived in this country from Mexico with her parents by her side. She was 9 years old, she recalled, and didn’t know a bit of English.

Guerrero, now a family doctor, smiled as she sat across from a young girl and her mother, and then proceeded with their checkup. The girl and her mother are among the newly arrived migrants in Chicago from South and Central America.

“I can kind of mirror myself in them,” Guerrero said. “These young parents are so courageous to do whatever they can to provide their kid and themselves a better life.”

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