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The number of people in immigration detention in the U.S. remains at record lows during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties is making another push to end the use of private immigration detention in San Diego county. -
No nation offers asylum or other protections to people displaced because of climate change. President Joe Biden’s administration is studying the idea, and climate migration is expected to be discussed at his first climate summit this week. -
As migrant families cross into the United States, many are being flown to San Diego and then removed to Mexico, without any of their belongings. This policy may be contributing to the rise of unaccompanied children crossing the border. -
To create space in the convention center, the U.S. Department of Health and Human services moved the 300 girls to Fort Bliss in Texas in an exchange for an equal number of children between the ages of 5 and 12 and their older siblings. -
Nearly 19,000 children traveling alone were stopped at the Mexican border in March, smashing previous highs set during periods of heavy child migration in 2014 and 2019. Is it a crisis? -
U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe New York Times reporter, Miriam Jordan, who is based in Los Angeles profiled some of the victims and survivors of a collision between an SUV carrying 25 people and a semitruck on March 2 near Holtville, Calif. Jordan wrote that those who died are a "portrait of an explosion in migration that has begun overwhelming the U.S. government." -
The San Diego convention center has now neared its capacity, as hundreds of migrant children arrived in San Diego this weekend.
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The San Diego Convention Center shelter for unaccompanied migrants was expected to reach its 1,450 capacity within days as another group of minors arrived Sunday, federal officials said. -
A conversation about anti-Asian hate with former San Diego news anchor Lee Ann Kim and an update on the more than 700 unaccompanied young migrant girls now sheltered in the San Diego Convention Center.
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