By TD
May 6, 2021
Proposal comes just one day after county creates a $5 million fund to provide free lawyers to illegal immigrants to fight deportation
Carl DeMaio, former San Diego City Councilman and Chairman of Reform California, is sounding the alarm and bringing public attention to a solicitation issued on Wednesday May 5 by the County of San Diego asking local land owners to offer unused agriculture land for the site of a proposed “Tent City” for illegal immigrants.
DeMaio is blasting the Tent City proposal - and is urging the Democratically-controlled County Board to immediately suspend work on the idea.
“This proposal is outrageous and should be immediately rejected by the County Board of Supervisors,” said DeMaio.
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SAN DIEGO • Courtney Porter, 23, sat on a wall in front of the San Diego Convention Center last week with a backpack and carry-on suitcase. He looked dejected while flipping through a sheaf of papers that listed several local homeless shelters. A call to each one resulted in the same answer: “I’m sorry, we’re full.”
Porter arrived a few weeks ago from St. Louis, but his unemployment check and hawking an iPad haven’t been enough to pay for rent. Desperate, Porter showed up at one facility and waited on an adjacent patio.
“They said, ‘I can get you some food, but you can’t sit here. You can go to the park or the beach,’” he said. He chose the seaside convention center, unaware that it had housed more than 600 homeless until the final person left March 24. Three days later, the homeless were replaced by 500 migrant girls flown in from Texas. Hundreds more arrive every few days.