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<p>The Trump Administration is taking a bold new step in apprehending undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities by deploying para-military SWAT units on ICE raids.</p>
<p>Starting next week and running through May, 100 specially-trained SWAT agents will be sent to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, and Newark, New Jersey, from their border assignments where they usually raid smuggling operations full of guns and drugs.</p>
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<p>After much uncertainty about its future, La Bodega Gallery in Barrio Logan will live on in the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Through a social media post, the gallery revealed it will be moving into The National 92113, a creative space inside a former heavy machinery workshop on the nearby corner of National and Sicard.</p>
<p>The Kensington-based firm Ten Seventy Architecture will help design the new floor plan, which is slated to include a gallery space and artist studios.</p>
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<p>A new report documents that over 200 people that were refused asylum in the United States were murdered, raped, or tortured after they returned to their native El Salvador.</p>
<p>Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City, released the report that documents the conditions asylum seekers face after they attempted to flee the violence of their country, only to be forced to return when their petitions for asylum were denied.</p>
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<p>The impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump is over after the US Senate voted against the two articles of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives in December.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Senators cast their votes on the two separate articles: Article I, which impeached Trump for abuse of power; and Article II, which impeached him for obstruction of Congress.</p>
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<p>A chartered 747 jumbo jet landed at Marine Corp Air Station Miramar on Tuesday carrying 187 Americans evacuated from China under fear of exposure to the Coronavirus.</p>
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<p>The recently signed international trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada included funding to help address raw sewage spilling into San Diego’s waters from Mexico.</p>
<p>President Trump signed the new US Mexico Canada Agreement, called USMCA, on January 29, after nearly a year of negotiations between the three countries. The USMCA replaces NAFTA, passed in 1992, as the binding trade agreement between the three countries of North America.</p>
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<p>Autoridades federales revelaron esta semana en San Diego información sobre el que sería el túnel de más largo jamás encontrado en la frontera, que se extiende a más de tres cuartos de milla de un pequeño edificio industrial en Tijuana, hacia el sur del condado.</p>
<p>La oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza informó que el túnel presentaba un sistema de rieles con carritos, ventilación de aire, cables y paneles eléctricos de alto voltaje, un elevador en la entrada del túnel y un sistema de drenaje.</p>
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<p>The San Diego City Council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee this week began the process to create a city ordinance to establish guidelines for the use of audio and video from thousands of surveillance cameras already deployed throughout the City after concerns have been raised by the public and privacy advocates.</p>
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<p>201 Americans that were evacuated from China’s Wuhan province because of the Coronavirus arrived at a military base in California this week but will not be forcefully quarantined.</p>