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Dozens of the more than 500 unaccompanied migrant children being held at the San Diego Convention Center, girls between the ages of 13 and 17, have tested positive for COVID-19. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe first 500 teenage girls arrived Saturday night and the Convention Center will eventually hold as many as 1,450 children. -
As the Border Patrol deals with capacity issues in Texas, the agency is flying families across the country so it can remove them. -
KPBS Midday EditionSupporters of former President Donald Trump use social media to spread misinformation about asylum seekers, immigrants and refugees from Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds are underrepresented in the census, and reflections on the demolition of San Diego Stadium in Mission Valley. -
Now that the San Diego Convention Center is no longer housing the homeless, it's expected to begin welcoming unaccompanied migrant children — up to 1,400 of them — this weekend. -
As unsheltered people are relocated to homeless shelters, the San Diego Convention Center is preparing for the first groups of migrant children seeking asylum to arrive this weekend.
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KPBS Midday EditionA statue of former California Gov. Pete Wilson is once again drawing the ire of social justice activists, who demand that it be taken down over anti-immigrant policies he supported during his administration. -
A historic amount of $41 billion in remittances were wired in back to Mexico 2020, and the amount of remittances was also up in January 2021. -
The criteria to be allowed into the U.S. are a closely held secret. The mystery leaves migrants guessing as they arrive at the border. -
City and county leaders announced Monday that the San Diego Convention Center is being made available for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to temporarily house unaccompanied migrant children seeking asylum.
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