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

“We don’t know how we absorb that. Our shelters are filled. Our hospitals are filled,” he said. “We really don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Buses drop off large groups of illegal immigrants in San Ysidro, Calif., on Feb. 29, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

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.