San Antonio found itself ill-prepared to handle a sudden influx of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Texas city was reportedly not informed by U.S. Border Patrol that the migrants, who began arriving on Tuesday, were coming, according to Interim Assistant City Manager Dr. Colleen Bridger.

(VIdeo: KENS 5)

“We didn’t get a heads up,” Bridger told KENS 5 on Thursday.

“When we called Border Patrol to confirm, they said, ‘yeah, another 200 to 300 from the Congo and Angola will be coming to San Antonio,'” she added.

The refugees, fleeing the Congo where an Ebola epidemic that began last year has now surpassed 2,000 cases, arrived in the Alamo city after reportedly traveling to the southern U.S. border with a group of about 350 migrants through Ecuador.

The city says Border Patrol told them earlier this week (when the city reached out) to expect 200-300 more migrants from the Congo and Angola to arrive in the coming days. @KENS5 #kens5eyewitness — Jaleesa Irizarry (@JaleesaReports) June 6, 2019

Besides the burden of processing and sheltering the migrants, the city has found an added challenge of communication, as KENS 5 reported that San Antonio is now “in desperate need of French-speaking volunteers.”

BREAKING: City confirms hundreds of migrants from the Congo have arrived in SA. The city is in desperate need for French speaking volunteers. @kens5 #kens5 pic.twitter.com/YGhhG3ewR0 — Jaleesa Irizarry (@JaleesaReports) June 6, 2019

The outlet’s reporter, Jaleesa Irizarry, used Google Translate to communicate with Masengi, a Congolese asylum-seeker.

I just spoke to Congolese migrant named Masengi. In so many words, Via Google Translate, (not a perfect translation) this is what he had to say. @KENS5 #kens5eyewitness pic.twitter.com/cwK9qi9iIV — Jaleesa Irizarry (@JaleesaReports) June 6, 2019

About 375 people, from a total of 450 just on Wednesday at the Migrant Resource Center, were housed at Travis Park Church that night. Another center was opened to shelter hundreds more expected to arrive, but plans to send the migrants to other cities have not yet panned out.

“The plan was 350 of them would travel from San Antonio to Portland. When we reached out to Portland Maine they said, ‘Please don’t send us any more. We’re already stretched way beyond our capacity,” Bridger said. “So we’re working with them [the migrants] now to identify other cities throughout the United States where they can go and begin their asylum seeking process.”

The Catholic Charities of San Antonio has reportedly been offering assistance but is now financially to meet the needs. The organization has spent thousands of dollars a week on bus tickets for the Spanish and French-speaking migrants to get to their final destinations.

“We’re looking at roughly $14,000 a week on bus tickets alone,” the group’s spokesperson, Christina Higgs, told KENS 5. “We’ve been asked several times if we’re worried if the money will run out and we are. It’s obviously a finite resource.”

U.S. Border Patrol reported that a large groups of migrants from Angola, Cameroon and Congo were apprehended last week after wading across the Rio Grande into the U.S.

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector apprehended a large group of 116 individuals—from Angola, Cameroon and Congo—after they illegally crossed the Rio Grande River into the U.S. on Thursday: https://t.co/5VsJsD4nPF pic.twitter.com/HWGyVtzEC6 — CBP (@CBP) May 31, 2019

“Agents have encountered 182 large groups (100+ individuals) across the SW border this fiscal year. This is the first large group apprehended in Del Rio Sector this FY and the first large group apprehended on the SW border this FY consisting entirely of African nationals,” CBP said in a statement.

Many expressed frustration and anger over the crisis and potential health emergency unfolding in the Texas city.

Actually, San Antonio is in desperate need for these bogus asylum seekers (who passed thru a ~dozen countries before reaching the US border) to be sent home pronto. https://t.co/wYu23Ohix0 — Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) June 7, 2019

This is an invasion, we have no room for them! It’s also very taxing on our economy! Every state will look like California if this is not stopped! — harley andrews ?????? (@AndrewsHarley) June 7, 2019

I wonder if anyone will recognize San Antonio in about 10 years, if we continue to “hire” liberals to lead. This has to stop before the wonderful culture of our city is lost forever. — PatLynnFor ??? (@PatLynnFor) June 8, 2019

I stopped donating money to Catholic Charities when I read that most of it goes to fund illegal immigration, no thanks, that makes the situation worse. Take care of our own first, we have 3M US children living in poverty — carole (@dagnon_carole) June 7, 2019

They want to send people who could be infected by God knows what diseases to every city around the country. This is a catastrophe of epic proportions. — Sherri (@BeardsleeSherri) June 7, 2019

Are you worried about the possibility of them carrying Ebola which can go undetected for up to 3 weeks? Why not mention it in your reporting? — ????? ??????? (@Kelenmcbreen) June 7, 2019

Why why why???? Who allows this to happen?? — JM Barlow – author (@MyDailyDaisy) June 8, 2019

The city should now realize how it feels to get no warning! Nobody who experiences the arrival of the illegal immigrants is prepared for their arrival. The Border personel are simply spreading the burden! We must get Congress to start protecting us before it’s too late! — ThinkCenter68 (@ThinkCenter1968) June 6, 2019