Border crossings have declined. Yet ICE keeps moving detained migrants out of San Diego.
For those moved to detention facilities elsewhere in the country, the odds of winning asylum decrease greatly
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Encerrados y en el limbo: los inmigrantes ganan sus casos pero permanecen bajo custodia del ICE
Ganar estos casos es extremadamente difícil, y más aún para las personas que se encuentran detenidas
Locked up and in limbo: Immigrants win their cases but remain in ICE custody
Facing torture if returned to their homelands, immigrants are detained for years as appeals drag on
Migrantes detenidos están siendo trasladados discretamente fuera del estado
Docenas son reubicados por ICE, separándolos de sus abogados y, a veces, de sus familias.
Migrants detained in San Diego are quietly being moved out of state
Dozens are relocated by ICE, cutting them off from their attorneys and, sometimes, their families
He taught the Afghan military before being evacuated. Now he’s ‘that welcoming, patient smile’ helping English learners in San Diego
When Zulfiqar Noori goes for walks around his neighborhood of Normal Heights, the smiles and casual greetings from ersby remind him how grateful he feels to live in San Diego...
La nueva jefa de la Patrulla Fronteriza de San Diego comparte sus prioridades. ‘No podemos hacerlo solos’.
La nueva Jefa de la Patrulla Fronteriza de San Diego tiene varias prioridades al asumir su cargo, pero la más importante es la seguridad de agentes y migrantes.Patricia McGurk-Daniel, veterana...
San Diego’s new Border Patrol chief shares her priorities. ‘We can’t do it alone.’
San Diego's new Border Patrol Chief has several priorities stepping into her role, but the most important is the safety of agents and migrants.Patricia McGurk-Daniel, a 24-year veteran of the...
CBP niega haber retenido a migrantes bajo custodia entre los muros fronterizos en San Diego
Los congresistas demócratas del Comité de Seguridad Nacional están investigando la práctica de la Patrulla Fronteriza a principios de este año de retener a los migrantes entre los muros fronterizos...
In letter to congress, CBP denies holding migrants in custody between border fences in San Diego
Congressional Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee are investigating Border Patrol's practice earlier this year of holding migrants between the border walls in San Diego for days without access to...
De Tijuana a Nueva York, solicitantes de asilo transgenero recurren a su propia comunidad para encontrar la libertad en Estados Unidos
NEW YORK y TIJUANA — La mujer del centro de México no tenía dinero para pagar al taxista.Todavía nerviosa tras su vuelo desde San Diego, Sandra estaba de pie junto al taxi...
Back story: Telling the stories of transgender asylum seekers in Tijuana and New York
The Union-Tribune's immigration reporter Kate Morrissey and photojournalist Ana Ramirez spent months learning about the connections among LGBTQ+ activists in Tijuana, San Diego and New York and the unofficial network...
La comunidad: From Tijuana to NYC, transgender asylum seekers turn to their own community to find freedom in the U.S.
NEW YORK and TIJUANA — The woman from central Mexico didn't have money to pay the cab driver. Still nervous after her flight from San Diego, Sandra stood next to the taxi...
La Mesa police apprehend cell phone thief in stolen car
LA MESA — La Mesa police caught a person suspected of stealing an iPhone from a Walmart on Tuesday evening, police said. The car used as the getaway vehicle was stolen. According...
Popular hiking trails at Three Sisters Falls and Cedar Creek Falls closed due to heat
RAMONA — The U.S. Forest Service closed two popular hiking trails in Cleveland National Forest due to concerns about excessive heat this week.Areas that include Three Sisters Falls and Cedar Creek Falls,...
Police sergeant on motorcycle struck by SUV in Coronado, injured
CORONADO — A Coronado police sergeant was injured when his motorcycle was struck by a driver in a SUV Sunday morning, Coronado police said.Shortly before 9 a.m., the driver pulled out of...
Pedestrian died after hit by car on Pacific Highway in Old Town
SAN DIEGO — A man died after being struck by a car Saturday night on Pacific Highway in the Old Town area, authorities said.The collision was reported shortly after 8:30 p.m. on...
Man, 22, arrested after crashing into car on Vista highway, killing driver
VISTA — A 22-year-old suspected drunken driver was arrested after he allegedly slammed into the back of a car on state Route 78 on Saturday night, killing the other driver, authorities...
San Diego woman fills home with donations for Afghans seeking safety in U.S.
SAN DIEGO — When an Afghan man who had finally received a visa for his service to the U.S. military came with his family to San Diego earlier this year, they...
2 killed in separate fatal crashes in Oceanside
OCEANSIDE — Two people died in separate single-car crashes in Oceanside early Sunday morning, according to police.Shortly after midnight, a man believed to be about 20 years old was killed when...
What I learned by listening to asylum seekers from around the world
When I see a headline on the national section of the newspaper about a new situation in a country somewhere in the world that could cause people to flee, such...
San Ysidro man accused of posing as ICE officer, stealing thousands from undocumented immigrants
Federal authorities are looking for a San Ysidro man wanted for allegedly impersonating a U.S. immigration officer in order to defraud undocumented immigrants who hoped to adjust their status.Davyd George...
Agentes fronterizos de EEUU rechazan a solicitantes de asilo en los puertos de entrada a pesar de las nuevas normas gubernamentales
Los funcionarios del puerto de entrada de San Ysidro se niegan a aceptar a los solicitantes de asilo que no tienen citas obtenidas a través de una aplicación para teléfonos...
U.S. border officials have been turning asylum seekers away at ports of entry despite new rules
Officials at the San Ysidro Port of Entry have been refusing to accept asylum seekers who don't have appointments obtained through a smartphone app even though new government rules indicate...
Las zonas de espera en el desierto de San Diego se vacian de inmigrantes
JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS — El autobús apareció en el horizonte, rodando lento pero constante hacia un grupo de 50 inmigrantes que esperaban con agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza bajo el sol abrasador...
Desert town holding areas the last in San Diego County to empty of migrants as border crossings slow
JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS — The bus appeared over the horizon, rolling slowly but steadily towards a group of 50 migrants waiting with Border Patrol agents in the hot desert sun in the...
Hundreds of migrants held between San Diego border walls as Title 42 ends
Contentious immigration policy Title 42 expired late Thursday night at the southern border with Mexico, but by Friday morning, U.S. officials reported that they had not seen the massive increase...
“Error de sistema”: La aplicacion para telefonos inteligentes se convierte en la unica forma de solicitar asilo, pero deja fuera a muchos inmigrantes
Mientras funcionarios, medios de comunicación y el público observaban a ambos lados de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México para ver qué depararían los cambios de política fronteriza del...
‘System error’: As smartphone app becomes only way to request asylum, it locks out many migrants
As officials, media and the public watched both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to see what the day's border policy changes would bring, a Venezuelan asylum seeker began Thursday at...
Hoy termina el Titulo 42. Esto es lo que ocurre en la frontera entre San Diego y Tijuana
Hoy, a las 8:59 p.m. hora local, terminará una importante política que cambió fundamentalmente el procesamiento de migrantes en la frontera.El Título 42, puesto en marcha con el inicio de...
U.S.-Mexico border towns brace for Title 42 expiration as migrant arrivals push capacity limits
MEXICALI, Mexico — The shelter for migrant women and children was running out of space Wednesday when a teary-eyed woman and her 7-year-old son rang the doorbell and sheepishly peeked inside. The...
Uncertainty reigns at border just before Title 42 lifts
At 8:59 p.m. Thursday, a major policy that fundamentally changed migrant processing at the border will end.Title 42, put in place with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, blocked asylum...
Congresistas exigen respuestas al DHS sobre los solicitantes de asilo retenidos entre los muros fronterizos
Varios congresistas están reaccionando ante las noticias de que el espacio entre los muros fronterizos que separan San Diego de Tijuana se está utilizando como celda de detención al aire...
of Congress demand answers from DHS over asylum seekers held between border walls
Several of Congress are pushing back after reports of the space between the border walls that separate San Diego from Tijuana being used as an open-air holding cell for...
Afghans evacuated during the withdrawal are able to renew temporary permission to be in the United States
The Biden istration will allow Afghans who were evacuated during the withdrawal of U.S. troops to remain in the United States for longer than the initial two-year temporary permits.The Department...
Restrictive border policy Title 42 ends this week but leaves imprint on future of asylum
The first day that asylum seekers could make appointments through their smartphones to request protection at U.S. ports of entry, a 22-year-old mother and her three children in Tijuana rushed...
Rancho Penasquitos neighbors team up to refugee family. ‘This is something we could do’
When Jennifer Barkley heard that families like hers could sponsor refugees to come to the United States, she felt called to sign up.She posted about it in the Facebook group...
Murio un hombre al caer desde el muro fronterizo en San Diego, paso en enero
Un hombre de México murió en enero tras caerse del muro fronterizo después de cruzar desde Tijuana, informó la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza en un comunicado difundido el...
Man dies after falling from border wall in San Diego
A man from Mexico died in January after falling from the border wall after crossing from Tijuana, Customs and Border Protection said in a statement released Thursday.According to the Mexican...
Migrantes dicen que la Patrulla Fronteriza los deja entre los muros por dias
Cuando un hombre afgano de 33 años que había trabajado para el ejército estadounidense como traductor cruzó a suelo estadounidense desde Tijuana, pensó que por fin había llegado a un...
Migrants say Border Patrol is keeping them between the border walls for days without food or shelter
When a 33-year-old man from Afghanistan who had worked for the U.S. Army as a translator crossed onto U.S. soil from Tijuana, he thought he'd finally made it to a...
Voluntarios denuncian que la Patrulla Fronteriza destruyo suministros para migrantes y se inicia una investigacion
A primera hora de la mañana de un sábado reciente, un grupo de voluntarios humanitarios caminó, resbaló y escaló escarpadas rocas por un sendero de la montaña de Otay marcado...
Border Patrol investigating after humanitarian volunteers say agents destroyed supplies left for migrants
Early on a recent Saturday morning, a group of humanitarian volunteers hiked, slipped and scaled steep rocks down an Otay Mountain trail marked by Electrolit bottles and clothing left behind...
Kitchen fire in El Cajon apartment displaces three people
EL CAJON — A kitchen fire in an apartment unit in El Cajon displaced three residents Sunday morning, according to a fire official. Firefighters responded to the complex on Johnson Avenue just...
Truck crashes into electrical pole, causes power outage in Santee
SANTEE — More than 2,000 homes and businesses in Santee were left without electricity Sunday after a truck ran into a pole, according to sheriff's officials.The truck hit the pole near Mast...
Pursuit of stolen car ends in crash, arrest of 18-year-old driver in Vista; deputy also crashes
NORTH COUNTY — The 18-year-old driver of a stolen Kia crashed and overturned the car in a Vista traffic circle early Sunday morning after being pursued by law enforcement officers in...
Military veterans at major U.S. companies to mentor Afghans
Afghans who are struggling to find work in line with the careers they had before they fled their country can now sign up to get mentored by U.S. military veterans...
Woman, man who died in human smuggling disaster off Black’s Beach identified
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office has released the names of a 23-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man who were among eight migrants from Mexico who drowned earlier...
Democrats call out Biden istration, condemn border wall being built in Friendship Park
Shameful. Embarrassing. A potentially impeachable offense. The trio of San Diego politicians speaking next to the border wall in San Ysidro on Friday used those words to characterize the decision...
‘We’re still here’: Protesters greet Biden in Point Loma and Coronado
President Joe Biden's visit to San Diego Monday drew small groups of protesters with divergent messages.Two hoped to draw the president's attention to issues that they believe he personally can...
Las mujeres marchan por Tijuana para condenar los altos indices de feminicidios y agresiones
Más de 1000 mujeres vestidas de morado marcharon el miércoles en Tijuana para exigir el fin de los feminicidios y otros abusos a los que se enfrentan con frecuencia.El aire...
Women march through Tijuana to condemn high rates of femicide and assault
More than 1,000 women wearing purple marched in Tijuana on Wednesday to demand an end to femicide and other abuses that they frequently face.The air filled with the smell of...
Detenidos por ICE alegan represalias tras denunciar condiciones medicas del Centro de Detencion de Otay Mesa
Semanas después de escribir un artículo de opinión para el Union-Tribune sobre su experiencia bajo custodia de inmigrantes, Erik Mercado, detenido en el Centro de Detención de Otay Mesa, fue...
ICE detainees allege retaliation after speaking out about medical conditions at Otay Mesa Detention Center
Weeks after writing an op-ed for the Union-Tribune about his experience in immigration custody, Erik Mercado, an detainee at Otay Mesa Detention Center, was suddenly moved to a different facility...
Clairemont residents push for action after 22-year-old killed at park a week ago
SAN DIEGO — One week after a young man was killed at North Clairemont Community Park, local residents gathered to denounce the violence.César Eduardo López-Sandoval was 22 years old when he...
Motorcyclist, motorist killed in 2 separate crashes in San Diego
SAN DIEGO — Two men died in separate single-vehicle crashes in the Midway District and Fairmount Park late Saturday and early Sunday, San Diego police said. In the first, a 22-year-old...
New documentary tells story of asylum-seeking mother in Southern California and Tijuana
When filmmakers Rae Ceretto and Kelly Scott met Kensy, an asylum-seeking woman from Honduras, in Tijuana, they thought her chances of making it into the United States were slim.It was...
Documental narra la historia de una madre solicitante de asilo en el sur de California y Tijuana
Cuando las cineastas Rae Ceretto y Kelly Scott conocieron en Tijuana a Kensy, una mujer hondureña solicitante de asilo, pensaron que sus posibilidades de entrar en Estados Unidos eran escasas.Era...
Documentary tells story of asylum-seeking mother in Southern California and Tijuana
When filmmakers Rae Ceretto and Kelly Scott met Kensy, an asylum-seeking woman from Honduras, in Tijuana, they thought her chances of making it into the United States were slim.It was...
‘We are not forgotten’: Formerly deported veterans become U.S. citizens in special San Diego ceremony
The night before he became a U.S. citizen, Mauricio Hernandez Mata barely slept.The formerly deported Army combat veteran is used to sleepless nights, one of the many effects of the...
Barbara was an asylum seeker stuck in Tijuana for years. Now she has a green card and business in Miami
When Bárbara received her green card late last year, she knew that she was finally safe.The 32-year-old Cuban Nicaraguan woman fled her home in Managua only to spend years stuck...
CBP abre carpas de procesamiento para migrantes en Otay Mesa
Los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de San Diego disponen ahora de una instalación de estructura flexible para procesar a los inmigrantes detenidos, al parecer la primera de este tipo...
Border Patrol opens processing tents for migrants in Otay Mesa
San Diego Border Patrol agents now have a soft-sided facility to use for processing apprehended migrants — the first of its kind in California.Though agents in Texas have used several...
Residentes en Estados Unidos ya pueden apadrinar refugiados. Esto es lo que tienes que saber para participar.
Cuando los refugiados llegan por primera vez a Estados Unidos, a menudo necesitan ayuda para aprender a ir en autobús, hacer un currículum o incluso, en algunos casos, encender la...
U.S. residents can now sponsor refugees. Here’s what you need to know to participate.
When refugees first arrive in the United States, they often need help learning how to ride the bus, make a resume or even in some cases turn on the stove....
Activists begin rallies at Border Patrol headquarters over Friendship Park wall construction
On Tuesday morning, a group of more than a dozen activists marched silently back and forth along the sidewalk outside the San Diego Border Patrol Headquarters in Chula Vista. They...
Solicitantes de asilo de Tijuana batallan con mensajes de error de aplicaciones moviles para conseguir citas y entrar a EEUU
TIJUANA — Una mañana reciente, una mujer del centro de México se acercó un teléfono a la cara frente al edificio municipal de Tijuana y se hizo una foto. Era el primer...
Asylum seekers in Tijuana are scrambling through mobile app error messages for few appointments into the U.S.
TIJUANA — On a recent morning, a woman from central Mexico held a phone up to her face outside of the Tijuana municipal building and took a picture. It was the first...
Friendship Park advocates promise to fight government’s border wall construction plans for historic site
Advocates for public access to Friendship Park on the U.S.-Mexico border are accusing the Biden istration of building former President Donald Trump's border wall. of the collective Friends of Friendship...
Biden istration to resume construction of taller border barrier at Friendship Park
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will resume border barrier construction in the historic Friendship Park area early this year, the agency said Tuesday, after a several-month pause. The agency had...
Persecuted in Russia for her faith, Jehovah’s Witness wins asylum in San Diego
When a San Diego immigration judge told Olga Ponomareva that she would be allowed to stay in the United States, she wanted to leap in the air.She and her 72-year-old...
CBP exigira el uso de una aplicacion movil para que solicitantes de asilo pidan proteccion en puertos de entrada
Migrantes que buscan solicitar asilo por los puertos de entrada de Estados Unidos, mientras sigue en vigor una política implementada en la pandemia, deberán utilizar una aplicación móvil a partir...
CBP to begin requiring mobile app for asylum seekers to request protection at ports of entry
Migrants hoping to cross through U.S. ports of entry to request asylum while a pandemic policy remains in effect at the border will be required to use a mobile app...
Facing prison in Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses are waiting in San Diego to see if the U.S. will protect them
Twice a week, Olga Ponomareva dresses in some of her nicest clothing to stand on a sidewalk in La Jolla Shores with a display of pamphlets about the Bible. Most...
Patrulla Fronteriza deja a migrantes en estaciones de autobuses debido a constantes cancelaciones de vuelos
Las cancelaciones masivas de vuelos que han alterado los planes de viaje de muchas personas en todo Estados Unidos siguen complicando la situación en San Diego para los solicitantes de...
Border Patrol has continued to leave migrants at bus stations amid ongoing flight cancellations
The mass flight cancellations that have disrupted travel plans for many around the United States are continuing to complicate the situation in San Diego for arriving asylum seekers and the...
San Diego celebrates the beginning of Kwanzaa
BALBOA PARK — In the center of a Kinara, the seven-branched candleholder used in Kwanzaa celebrations, sits a black candle flanked by three red candles on the left and three green on...
Southwest Airlines chaos persists on Tuesday as hundreds of flights in and out of San Diego are canceled or delayed
The post-holiday misery at San Diego airport persisted Tuesday as nearly 200 more flights were canceled, the majority of them by Southwest Airlines.As of late morning Tuesday, Southwest Airlines had...
Funcionarios federales dejan a decenas de migrantes en las estaciones de autobuses del condado de San Diego
Funcionarios federales dejaron el viernes a decenas de migrantes desperdigados en las estaciones de autobuses de todo el condado de San Diego, mientras las tormentas invernales bloqueaban los viajes a...
Federal officials leave dozens of migrants at bus stations across San Diego County
Federal officials left dozens of migrants scattered at bus stations across San Diego County on Friday as winter storms blocked travel nationally and the region's migrant shelters filled to capacity.From...
Crece la confusion en la frontera de Tijuana ante la vigencia de la politica de expulsion
Una mujer hondureña, sus cuatro hijos y su nieto de 2 años dormían en una banqueta cerca del puerto de entrada de San Ysidro el martes por la noche.La mujer,...
Confusion at the Tijuana border grows as expulsion policy remains in effect
A Honduran woman, her four children and 2-year-old grandchild slept on a sidewalk near the San Ysidro Port of Entry on Tuesday night. The woman, who has already spent about...
From Texas to San Diego, activists drive length of border to call for more humane migration policies
Shortly before sunset on Friday, a group of more than 30 people quietly walked down the sand of Imperial Beach to touch the water of the Pacific Ocean.Their journey had...
This San Diego migrant shelter has become an integral part of the border. Other cities are taking notice.
The phone calls started coming into the immigration hotline in October 2018, many from the McDonald's at the San Ysidro pedestrian border crossing.Groups of asylum seekers had been left...
Se supone que solicitar asilo es gratis. No obstante, la corrupcion en Tijuana hace que muchos tengan que pagar
Cuando una familia rusa, amenazada por oponerse a la guerra en Ucrania, llegó recientemente a Tijuana, probó todas las tácticas de las que había oído hablar para llegar a Estados...
Requesting asylum is supposed to be free. But corruption in Tijuana means many have to pay
When a Russian family, threatened because of their opposition to the war in Ukraine, recently arrived in Tijuana, they tried every tactic they'd heard of to reach the United States...
Para estos agricultores latinos e indigenas, el futuro de la agricultura pasa por la sostenibilidad y la retribucion
Hijo de trabajadores agrícolas emigrantes de Nayarit, México, Héctor López dijo que no quiso tener nada que ver con la agricultura durante la mayor parte de su vida después de...
El equipo de diseno sugiere que el vallado del Parque de la Amistad se repare en lugar de sustituirlo
Con la construcción del proyecto de sustitución de la barrera fronteriza en pausa, un equipo de diseño organizado por activistas del Parque de la Amistad ha recomendado que el gobierno...
Design team suggests Friendship Park fencing can be repaired rather than replaced
With construction on a border barrier replacement project paused, a design team organized by advocates for Friendship Park has recommended that the federal government not go through with its plans...
For these Latino and Indigenous farmers, the future of agriculture is about sustainability and giving back
The son of migrant farm workers from Nayarit, Mexico, Hector Lopez said he wanted nothing to do with agriculture for most of his life after watching the way his parents...
Retiran segundo filtro estadounidense en linea SENTRI de la garita de San Ysidro
Por segundo día consecutivo no se observa en la línea SENTRI de la garita de San Ysidro el filtro adicional que la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP) colocó...
Following Mexico’s checkpoint installation, extra layer of U.S. border officials disappears from SENTRI line
After more than a year of posting officers on the physical border line in addition to the ones working the booths at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Customs and...
Como podria ser la tramitacion del asilo tras el fin de las expulsiones en la frontera?
Días antes de que se presentara en el puerto de entrada de San Ysidro con su familia para solicitar asilo, un niño de 7 años murió en Tijuana.El niño era...
What could asylum processing look like after border expulsions end?
Days before he was scheduled to go to the San Ysidro Port of Entry with his family to request asylum, a 7-year-old boy died in Tijuana.The child was a client...
El trafico fronterizo en Tijuana se paraliza con nuevo punto de revision en la garita de San Ysidro
La mañana del martes, conductores de Tijuana que se dirigían a Estados Unidos gritaban, se indignaban y hacían gestos con el pulgar hacia abajo cuando pasaban por un tope de...
Border traffic in Tijuana slows to crawl with new Mexican immigration checkpoint
On Tuesday morning, drivers in Tijuana heading to the United States yelled, jeered and gave thumbs-down gestures as they ed a newly installed speed bump and checkpoint staffed by Mexican...
Mexico colocara filtros de revision en la garita de San Ysidro a partir del martes 15
A partir del martes, los funcionarios de inmigración mexicanos, acompañados por las fuerzas de seguridad, comprobarán los documentos de los viajeros antes de que entren en Estados Unidos desde los...
Mexican immigration officers to begin inspecting San Diego-bound travelers in border wait line
Mexican immigration officers, accompanied by security forces, will be checking travelers' documents before they enter the United States from the car lanes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry beginning...
En audiencia internacional sobre derechos humanos, EEUU rechaza dar detalles de una muerte en la frontera en 2010
Antes de testificar ante un tribunal internacional de derechos humanos, María Puga cogió un rosario que llevaba colgado en su auto desde hacía 12 años y se lo puso al...
At international human rights hearing, United States declines to argue details of 2010 border killing
Before she testified in front of an international human rights tribunal, Maria Puga took a rosary that has hung in her car for 12 years and placed it around her...