Catholic Charities expects as many as 2,000 asylum seekers a day could arrive in San Antonio after the pandemic-era rule ends on May 11.
It’s unclear how these efforts will affect the number of migrants arriving to the U.S. in the coming weeks and months. Fernandez said he’d like to see the federal government send asylum seekers directly to their intended destination rather than busing them to cities in Texas.
“That means today, as of this moment, we have no government funding coming to cover these costs,” he said Tuesday. “[FEMA] called us to let us know that yes, there will be funding to help us pay for everything we do, but we’re still waiting for that.” Between the rising numbers and the uncertainty of government funding, Catholic Charities has had to reduce the amount of money it is able to spend to help asylum seekers travel to their final destinations around the U.S., Nicaragua, Colombia and Haiti, and are heading mainly to New York, Miami and Chicago, staff said.
“Not having clarity from the government is making things a lot worse for us,” he said. “If people keep coming and coming and coming, where are we putting them? Six thousand people in one week is a lot of people.”, in which Austin would take some migrants coming up from the border, resulted in a single bus trip.
In the parking lot, 19-year-old Laura Rendón held her 5-month-old daughter in her arms, sniffling from a minor cold, looking for a place to sit while her husband cut another man’s hair for $20, enough to purchase diapers for the baby.
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