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For years, El Cajon has long been a hub for refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Now, amid President Donald Trump’s refugee ban, they are coping with the help of neighborhood ties and a local nonprofit. -
Federal immigration officials said in statements Thursday that more than two dozen people arrested in April at the Port of San Diego were deported. Experts question why they weren’t charged in federal court. -
Of the more than 16,000 removals by ICE, 10,847 were Mexican nationals, 996 from Guatemala and 544 from Venezuela with smaller figures from 116 other countries. -
San Diego County sued the federal government and private prison company CoreCivic earlier this year after a coalition of lawmakers — including County Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Paloma Aguirre — were blocked from inspecting the facility. -
Several nonprofits and immigrant rights organization told KPBS that Mayor Todd Gloria has not been collaborative or transparent in creating a response plan for how to handle a Minneapolis-style immigration enforcement operation in San Diego. -
Asylum seekers going to college in California can pay much higher nonresident tuition and are often excluded from financial aid, at great cost to them and their families as immigration cases spend years in limbo. -
At the University of San Diego School of Law’s immigration clinics, students work on real-time immigration cases — helping people become citizens, apply for green cards, win asylum cases and even fight deportations. -
The board authorized county officials to negotiate with the Mexican Consulate on legal services for those who face removal from the United States for being here illegally. -
Last year, nearly 120 deportation flights took off from San Diego International Airport and MCAS Miramar. In 2024, there were zero. -
The debate about who should, or should not, be a citizen of the United States has deep roots, and California is a prime case study.
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