Report: San Diego scraps plans to build tent city for illegal immigrants
FILE – In this May 26, 2010, file photo, men sit in the sun in the health ward at the Otay Mesa immigration detention center in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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San Diego County has rescinded its plans to build a so-called “tent city” for illegal immigrants amid public outcry. According to reports, the county sent a letter to farmers searching for agricultural land for migrants to live on while being offered California’s “wrap around” services, including mental health, schooling and health care.
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Organizations looking to immunize their members against COVID-19 can now apply to have San Diego County staff run on-site vaccination clinics, local officials announced Friday.
The offer extends to businesses, nonprofits, religious groups and others capable of hosting hundreds or thousands of people. Interested organizations can visit coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine, select “Request to Host a COVID-19 Vaccination Event” and fill out when and where they’d like to hold the event. County staff will then review that information before showing up with the doses and equipment needed to run the pop-up clinic for free.
It’s the latest attempt to make getting vaccinated as easy as possible by bringing the shots to San Diegans rather than asking them to leave where they work and live.
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Mexican federal authorities seized illegal marijuana from a tunnel discovered Thursday in a Nueva Tijuana home located across the border from Otay Mesa in San Diego.
The unfinished tunnel which Mexican federal officials said was meant for smugglers to bring drugs into San Diego from Mexico was being constructed no more than 50 or so feet from a new National Guard base opened last year in Tijuana.
A National Guard solider stands at a house located across the street from a National Guard base where an incomplete drug tunnel was discovered.
((Wendy Fry / San Diego Union Tribune) )
The sophisticated but incomplete tunnel has ventilation, lighting, rails, a transportation cart, according to Mexican federal officials. According to U.S. officials, it has no exit on the San Diego side of the border.
U.S. Customs puts petal to the metal for Mother s Day
Specialists expect to inspect 1 billion cut flowers
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists are working round the clock to ensure that America’s moms enjoy a pest-free Mother’s Day on May 9.
Mother’s Day is the busiest time of year for flower imports, which can carry pests and diseases that threaten U.S. agriculture and the environment. This year, CBP agriculture specialists have inspected more than one billion cut flower stems bound for stores and households throughout the United States. As a result of those inspections, CBP interdicted 1,977 pests.
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Residents of San Diego may soon be covering the costs of lawyers for illegal immigrants who are in federal custody and facing deportation.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to move on a $5 million, yearlong pilot program through which the local government would pay for attorneys to represent immigrants being held at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Otay Mesa Detention Center. People in custody could access lawyers for no cost through the county’s public defender’s office.
The move sets up San Diego County to be the first region on the southern border with Mexico to take it upon itself to cover the legal costs for people held in the county, though other localities away from the border have implemented similar initiatives.