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<p>The large event hall in downtown where politicians gather on election nights will now house some of San Diego’s most vulnerable homeless population as the City prepares for an anticipated increase in COVID-19 cases.</p>
<p>“The worst of COVID-19 hasn’t hit us yet,” San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said on Monday. “The storm is still out there.”</p>
<p>San Diego has not had any confirmed COVID-19 cases among its homeless population, but tests have only recently been available for the vulnerable community.</p>

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<p>The US Secretary of State and Mexico’s Foreign Secretary are in negotiations to find a way to restrict non-essential travel across the US-Mexico border to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the US State Department confirmed on Thursday night.</p>

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<p>A new study released this week by a Washington, D.C. think tank finds that some workers are “much less likely” to be able to work from home during the coronavirus crisis.</p>
<p>The non-profit Economic Policy Institute found that only 16.2% of Latino workers have jobs that can still be done remotely, followed by Black workers at 19.7%., mostly due to their over-representation in physical jobs including the service industry, construction jobs, manufacturing, transportation, and installations and repairs.</p>

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<p>California voters may have been a little confused on Election Day when they saw Roque “Rocky” de la Fuente on the ballot as a Republican candidate for President, and also saw Roque “Rocky” de la Fuente III on the ballot as a Democratic candidate for President, then again found Roque “Rocky” de la Fuente on the ballot as a presidential candidate under the American Independent Party.</p>

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<p>After more than three years of threats by President Donald Trump to close the US border with Mexico over illegal immigration and narcotics smuggling, now Mexican officials are contemplating restrictions or monitoring of Southbound traffic due to the spread of the coronavirus in the US.</p>

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<p><em>(Story updated Match 13, 2020 @ 6:58 pm)</em></p>
<p>The race to be the next Mayor of San Diego is still undecided ten days after the election as votes continue to be counted by the Registrar of Voters.</p>
<p>With all Election Day and absentee votes counted, Assemblyman Todd Gloria leads the six-candidate race with 42% of the vote, followed by San Diego City Councilman Scott Sherman with 23.1%, followed by San Diego Councilwoman Barbara Bry with 22.9%.</p>

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<p>A $15 billion bond measure to modernize schools throughout the state failed to pass in Tuesday’s election, as did bond measures in Poway, Lakeside, Escondido, Chula Vista, and East County.</p>
<p>The statewide measure, called Proposition 13, would have approved issuing up to $15 billion in new bonds to providing matching funds to local districts to modernize schools and upgrade equipment. The proposition had the same number, 13, as the well-known 1978 measure that limited property tax increases in the state.</p>

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<p>The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has stopped President Trump’s policy of sending asylum-seeking migrants back to Mexico while they wait for their asylum applications to be reviewed.</p>
<p>That policy, which started in January 2019, has seen over 60,000 refugees stopped from entering the US after applying for asylum. The policy was a change from the traditional process of releasing asylum seekers in the US pending their cases being decided.</p>