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Around 30,000 Venezuelans have arrived in Chicago over the last two years. The influx has led to a backlash — to claims the migrants are fueling crime and taking up resources that longtime Chicago residents need. WBEZ’s Chip Mitchell is back from two weeks in Colombia, a country that’s received a much larger influx from Venezuela. Those two countries share a language, a religion and a nearly 14-hundred-mile border. But Chip reports that, even in Colombia, Venezuelans face xenophobia.