Author: Stephen Franklin

Baffled travelers stepping off buses into an unknown city and life. Families huddled on police stations’ floors. Painful accounts of robberies and rapes, and of deaths in jungles and rivers – the price of escaping grim horrors. These and other stories told by the thousands of immigrants who have surged into Chicago in recent months,

It was a compelling moment that synched with the mood of a nation obsessed with the death of desperately needed factory jobs, a small union badly battered by technology and jobs sent aboard. And it centered on a truly iconic American snack, the Oreo cookie. What lifted this union struggle from obscurity  was then presidential