Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that it would offer $39.2 million in new federal funding to the San Diego region as part of its Shelter and Services Program to boost services for people coming through the city, but the groups which built the coalition say they are now being left out of discussions on how the money should be used.
Following a week in which the San Diego region again became the number-one area along the southern border for migrant arrests, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond lashed out Thursday at policies he said made the region "the path of least resistance for illegal immigration."
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More than $39 million in Shelter and Services Program funding is headed to San Diego as part of federal monies authorized by Congress to support communities that are providing services to migrants.