Catholic Charities to take over San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center Monday
Maria Fernanda, 22, hugs her stepmother, Ariana, after reuniting with her father, William, right, on Thursday outside San Antonio’s Migrant Resource Center on San Pedro Avenue on the near North Side. The family is from Cuba.SAN ANTONIO — Their journey from Venezuela took four months. Mexican immigration officials caught and returned them to the border with Guatemala four times. But Keyder Escalona, 28, and Ayberson Robles, 22, finally made it to San Antonio.
The facility — which provides asylum seekers like Escalona and Robles with service referrals and help with travel connections, transportation to nearby shelters and overnight accommodations — is anor the Greyhound bus terminal downtown. And even as the operation of the center changes hands Monday, its services will continue.
“The plan was always to transition the operation of the MRC to Catholic Charities once the operation was established and Catholic Charities was able to hire staff,” said Roland Martinez, a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Human Services. Of the more than 24,000 migrants whom the center has served, Martinez said, the city has asked 96 unaccompanied males to leave for behaving unacceptably, violating rules or exceeding their allotted time to stay.
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