San Antonio's Migrant Resource Center has cots for 700. It could become overwhelmed as migrants pour across the border with the end of Title 42.
But San Antonio officials have been mum on what they will do if the city's Migrant Resource Center-Centro de Bienvenida fills up with the end of Title 42. The pandemic-era federal public health policy was used to quickly expel asylum seekers for the last three years. ItA migrant holds an infant above the water as a group crosses the Rio Grande between Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday, May 11, 2023.
Later, he released the following statement: “Contingency plans are in development should the number of migrants greatly exceed the capacity of the Migrant Resource Center.” The city, Bexar County and Catholic Charities “are not developing plans for a mass shelter and do not have the capacity or resources to serve increased numbers of migrants for extended periods of time,” city spokesperson Laura Mayes said in an email.
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