San Diego Leaders Speak out Over Mass Migrant Drop-Offs at Transit Stations

A U.S. Border Patrol agent keeps watch as migrants enter a vehicle to be transported from a makeshift camp between border walls between the U.S. and Mexico in San Diego on May 13, 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images

SAN DIEGO—As U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents continue to drop off hundreds of migrants at transit centers throughout San Diego County on Sept. 15, local politicians are speaking out against the policy.

The cited cause of the drop-offs is an attempt to clear a space between two U.S.-Mexico border fences where more than 700 migrants, asylum-seekers, and refugees had been camping, a border patrol statement read.