With hundreds of migrants arriving in San Antonio every day, bussed up from the border, the city opened a Migrant Resource Center on Thursday to the surprise of residents in the nearby Shearer Hills and Ridgeview neighborhoods.
San Antonio opened its new Migrant Resource Center on Thursday. The center is located along the 7000 block of San Pedro Avenue. Migrants legally traveling in the U.S. are coming through the Alamo City, and the center can help with service referrals, or transportation. KSAT's Garrett Brnger talked with neighbors in the area who had mixed opinions on the center.
Of the 600 migrants who arrive daily in San Antonio, the city says 500 need a place to stay overnight. And while previously, many had been going straight to the airport, those who didn’t have immediate travel plans ended up milling around Travis Park downtown, where groups like the Interfaith Welcome Coalition tried to help them with food and shelter.
However, residents of the neighborhood behind the building hadn’t been aware of the city’s plans and had mixed reactions when asked about it Thursday. “A lot more robbery going on because -- a lot more just theft, you know? A lot more people wandering the neighborhoods that don’t belong,” Davidson said.
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