Mayor Opposes Permanent ‘Migrant Shelter’ in San Diego as 5,000 Are Released to the Streets

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors’ Feb. 27 decision to explore plans to develop a permanent “migrant transit shelter” would only worsen the border crisis and make the region an even bigger “magnet” for illegal immigration, says El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells. “I don’t think that’s the answer. The answer is to close the border,” he told The Epoch Times March 1 at a transit center in his city where the U.S Border Patrol had released hundreds of illegal immigrants a day earlier. A Border Patrol source confirmed the agency has released more than 5,000 illegal migrants to the streets of various cities, at transit centers in San Ysidro, El Cajon, and Oceanside in the last week or so....