City of San Antonio announces plan for end of Title 42

A number of asylum seekers arriving at the border will likely be bound for San Antonio. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have been helped by the city over the last few years. Now that Title 42 is lifted, Garrett Berger looks at what the city is or is not doing now. For asylum seekers coming up from the border, San Antonio has a common stop on a longer trip to somewhere else. Many of them have tickets to come to San Antonio and then that becomes a disbursement area. To the Greyhound station downtown, Michelle Rumbow from the Interfaith Welcome Coalition helped a group of migrants. They knew about the Migrant Resource Center so they asked how to get there and we told them that this is one way to do it to get on the city bus.

The city's MRC, as it's called on San Pedro Avenue, has been a stopping point for thousands of migrants every month, where they can rest before moving on. Today, we can see many apparently sitting in a line outside the building. Catholic Charities runs the center's operations, but it didn't make anyone available for an interview or respond to emailed questions. The city did not make anyone available for interviews either, but in an email last night, a spokeswoman said the city, county and Catholic Charities are making contingency plans for transportation assistance if capacity exceeds the MRC. They're not, however, making plans for a mass shelter, she wrote, and they don't have capacity to serve more migrants for extended periods. She also says Catholic Charities is working to secure a limited number of hotel rooms. Meanwhile, IWC's coordinating director urged San Antonians to have empathy.

Every step has been dangerous for them. They have seen lots of people die on their journey and they still continue their journey to the United States. Garrett Berger, KSAT 12 News.