Volunteers partner to make dignity bags for children at Migrant Resource Center
LULAC and other volunteers are partnering to make dignity bags full of essentials for children at San Antonio's Migrant Resource Center. Many come with baby wipes, combs, chapstick and journals, but each is individualized depending on age and gender.
Come next year, some asylum seekers may risk being stranded in San Antonio
If the federal government doesnโt come through next year, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said thereโs a real concern with no funding for migrant travel. Asylum seekers could be stranded in San Antonio unless family members can pay for their airfare or bus rides.
Migrants find themselves waiting for days in San Antonio before heading to their next destinations
Hundreds of people find themselves waiting in long lines before continuing on their journey. The City of San Antonio Migrant Dashboard shows nearly 600 migrants were processed on Wednesday but sometimes there are many more people waiting their turn to be processed.
San Antonio not planning on a mass shelter for migrants
A city spokeswoman said the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, and Catholic Charities were working on contingency plans to help with "transportation assistance" if the Migrant Resource Center's capacity was stretched too thin, but it was not planning on creating a mass shelter.
San Antonio braces for spike in migrants with looming end of Trump-era policy
The daily number of people passing through the center ranges from under 1,000 to up to 1,800 already, one city official said, and an assistant city manager estimates the number of migrants coming through the MRC will jump by about 30% with the end of Title 42.