Alexander Perez, a migrant from Venezuela, said he’d been sleeping in the lot for the past two weeks, working day labor jobs to save money for rent to stay. Story by raquelltorrres and photography by BriaWoods1.
Migrants occupy a vacant lot that they have turned into a makeshift outdoor shelter in the Shearer Hills-Ridgeview area, across the street from San Antonio's migrant resource center.The City of San Antonio’s policy of releasing migrants from its resource center after three days forced some migrants, including families with children, to sleep on the streets.
“I want to stay in San Antonio because I haven’t seen racism here. There’s a lot of good people here, there’s plenty of jobs,” said the Venezuelan immigrant last week. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.Dovalina emphasized that the city’s purpose in opening the central hub has been to temporarily assist migrants on their way to their host cities. She said she hadn’t heard that some migrants appear to be changing their travel plans to stay in San Antonio.
Sebastián Hidalgo, 3 years old, holds a ball near bags of trash at a makeshift outdoor migrant shelter in the Shearer Hills-Ridgeview area Thursday. Hidalgo immigrated with his mother from Venezuela.Yojaina Cortes, a Venezuelan migrant who arrived in San Antonio with her 3-year-old son, said Thursday that she asked an official at the center if she could stay one more day until her husband, who was still in processing, arrived at the center.
It is unclear what happened to Cortes and her son. Carlos Garcia, pastor of Iglesia Pentecostal Impacto de Amor, said she was not among the families taken in Friday. Two families are staying with church members, he said; one has since been connected to Catholic Charities.
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