Councilman Marc Whyte says closing the Migrant Resource Center would reduce migrant arrivals through San Antonio — something experts say isn’t true.
More than 228,000 asylum seekers passed through San Antonio last year, and most of them spent time at the Migrant Resource Center on San Pedro Avenue. As City Council man Marc Whyte tells it, those migrants flocked here because of the 71,000-square-ft. facility, which city officials opened nearly two years ago.
The facility opened in March of that year amid an overwhelming flow of migrants who were released at the border with dates to appear before immigration officials because Border Patrol facilities were full. Hundreds of migrants — mainly Central American families with children — were arriving in San Antonio daily from border cities such as Laredo and Eagle Pass, stretching thin local nonprofits that had previously assisted migrants without city help.
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