Austin to help relocate asylum seekers from San Antonio Migrant Resource Center as Title 42 ends

With Title 42 now expired, Austin city officials pledged to bus 250 asylum seekers out of San Antonio weekly to help with potential overcrowding at its Migrant Resource Center (MRC), Austin TV station KXAN reports. Austin announced the move Thursday mere hours before the expiration of Title 42, a Trump-era emergency order that allowed the U.S. to deny asylum seekers entry due to pandemic health risks. Under Austin’s program,  asylum seekers will be transported directly from the MRC to Bergstrom International Airport, where they’ll fly to other cities to be reunited with family members or find more permanent housing, according to KXAN’s report.