Opinion: San Antonio is doing more than any other major city in providing food, clothing, shelter and services for vulnerable migrants.
Asylum-seekers wait outside San Antonio’s migrant resource center, which is now operated by local nonprofit Catholic Charities.influx of asylum-seeking migrants
Yes, a city with one of the highest poverty rates in the U.S. is doing more than any other major city in providing food, clothing, shelter and services for some of the hemisphere’s most vulnerable people. Perhaps our own vulnerabilities make us more sensitive to others suffering the plight and perils of exodus.migrant resource center
are key strategies for Republican candidates in Texas, resulting in the kind of political stunts devised by Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in busing or flying asylum-seekers from Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American countries to Democratic cities and enclaves. Such posturing provides fodder for countless television commercials, stump speeches, media sound bites and campaign mailers that help drown out any rational conversation about women’s rights to make decisions about their own bodies, about family planning and about equal access to health care.
The right to flee political persecution, violence and torture has been international law since the end of World War II and the advent of the United Nations’, further strengthened by the UN’s 1967 Protocol. The U.S played a leading role among the nearly 150 nations that supported the establishment of these international norms.
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