As asylum-seekers struggle while waiting for work permits, Chicago businesses can't fill jobs

CHICAGO — Huberth Espinoza, 65, sat on a bench outside the 5th District police station in Pullman on a Wednesday in late June, waiting to be picked up for work.

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