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SAN DIEGO - Following a week in which the San Diego region again became the number-one area along the southern border for migrant arrests, San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond lashed out Thursday at policies he said made the region"the path of least resistance for illegal immigration."
San Diego, for the first time since the late 1990s, is now the top region in the country for migrant arrests. According to CBP data, the last time the region outpaced the rest of the country's nine southern border regions for a month was October 1999 and the last year the region arrested the most migrants was back in 1997.
According to McGurk-Daniel, CBP officers intervened in 35 possible human smuggling operations in the San Diego County region and seized 154 pounds of cocaine, 238 pounds of methamphetamine, nearly 37 pounds of fentanyl and seven firearms. The county of San Diego and the Catholic Diocese of San Diego County were both awarded $19,592,554 in SSP funding, which comes from the Department of Homeland Security, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The agencies awarded $300 million nationally.
Following its closure due to lack of funding, San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Nora Vargas advocated for a federally funded migrant transition center, which was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on Feb. 27.
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