An average of 600 migrants a day arrive in San Antonio, city officials say. The Food Bank is one of many local nonprofits helping them.
For those looking to help, support can take any number of forms, Cooper said, such as donating money, non-perishable food or other needed items, as well as volunteering, with the Food Bank or any of the other partner agencies.
Cooper said the Food Bank began serving migrants several years ago. At the time, only a small number were passing through San Antonio. “The numbers were so small, they were hidden, we just really didn’t see it too often,” he said. “They were stopping by a food pantry and getting resources.” Around 2019, that number began to increase. While many migrants were being detained at the border, those who sought asylum were often driven to San Antonio in buses or vans in high numbers, Cooper said, and dropped off with no coordination, at all times of day and night. According to Cooper, the San Antonio Food Bank has provided 180,000 meals and about 100,000 pounds of consumables to migrants since July 2021.
“If you take a flight and you get hung up in a city because of a mechanical or weather or whatever, and now you’re stranded,” he said, “whose responsibility is it to take care of you when you’re stranded? That’s what we’re doing, is stepping up as a community.”
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