San Diego Migrant Center Closes After Exhausting Funding – One America News Network

February 27, 2024 Sophia Flores US 0

Asylum seekers wait in line to be processed by the Border Patrol at a makeshift camp near the US-Mexico border east of Jacumba, San Diego County, California, January 2, 2024. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP) (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images) — Asylum seekers wait in line to be processed by the Border Patrol at a makeshift camp near the US-Mexico border east of Jacumba, San Diego County, California, January 2, 2024. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s Zach Petersen
2:00 PM – Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The closure of a migrant shelter in San Diego is forcing the mass release of hundreds of illegals into local neighborhoods.

Border patrol has been dropping off the immigrants at bus stations after the taxpayer-funded South Bay Community Center ran out of money and was forced to shut down last week.

CBP says more than 140,000 immigrants have crossed the San Diego border since October. 21,000 of them have been Chinese nationals.

The center says it’s been handling 800-migrants a day, forcing it to prematurely burn through its funding.

Supervisor Jim Desmond said San Diego County couldn’t afford to hemorrhage any more local taxpayer dollars to manage a problem created at the federal level by the Biden administration.

Hey @POTUS if you genuinely cared about securing the border, you would visit Jacumba and see the gaps that thousands of people walk through each day, or you would visit the Iris Ave Transit Station and see the thousands of people that your administration drops on our streets…

— Supervisor Jim Desmond (@jim_desmond) February 27, 2024

The reality is that the people entering this country are not being properly vetted. Border Patrol does not have the time or resources to vet people and instead is forced to drop them on the streets of San Diego. This is dangerous for everyone involved. pic.twitter.com/xckJCTsomz

— Supervisor Jim Desmond (@jim_desmond) February 27, 2024

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors is expected to discuss a long-term plan on Tuesday for a federally funded migrant welcome center and shelter.

Supervisor Joel Anderson is also expected to send a letter to President Biden. In it, he will request that Biden temporarily closes the San Diego border in order to give the county the time and funding to deal with the migrant street releases.

With funding for San Diego’s migrant transition center expiring this week, our County will once again be burdened with migrant street releases at transit centers as early as this Saturday.

San Diego’s migrant transition center has prevented more than 80,000 street releases… pic.twitter.com/caxSGWoUbW

— Supervisor Joel Anderson (@JoelAndersonCA) February 21, 2024

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