Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants Released on San Diego Streets After Funding Runs Out

The U.S. Border Patrol began releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants onto the streets of San Diego on Feb. 23, a day after a nonprofit group that was contracted to provide transportation, food, and other basic services for the immigrants ran out of funding and shut down operations. More than 550 were released Friday morning, a Border Patrol source who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation told The Epoch Times. The illegal immigrants were transported from a processing facility in Otay Mesa which was at 190 percent overcapacity and released at the Iris transit station in San Ysidro, just north of the border, the source said....