Busload of migrants arrives at Westmont Metra station as suburban dro…

A busload of approximately 40 migrants was dropped off at the Metra station in west suburban Westmont late Saturday morning, continuing an escalation of suburban drop-offs that began earlier this week.

The drop-off in Westmont was witnessed by NBC 5 Investigates reporter Bennett Haeberle at around 11:45 a.m., who noted that the migrants boarded Metra trains toward Chicago shortly after arrival at the station.

“It was a difficult journey because I traveled about 10 countries. I had to travel by train, and it was very cold, almost below zero degrees. We go through a lot of need,” Osmel Raul Diaz Vazquez of Venezuela said.

Vasquez added that he didn’t have any questions, he just wants “to be able to succeed.”

The drop-off in Westmont mirrors similar suburban drop-offs this week in Aurora, Manhattan and Elburn, where migrants were told to board trains to Chicago after being dropped off.

In the instance where migrants were dropped off in Manhattan, they learned…