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  • Sheriff Defies County Board’s Attempt to Turn Her Jurisdiction Into a ‘Super Sanctuary’ for Illegal Immigrants

    12/15/2024 5:18:05 PM PST · by bitt · 12 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | 12/15/2024 | Jared Harris
    A California sheriff has defied an administrative board’s attempt to turn her county into a “super sanctuary” for people illegally inside the United States. The 3-1 Tuesday vote from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors restricts assistance to federal immigration authorities. “Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, and our county will not be a tool for policies that hurt our residents,” Chairwoman Nora Vargas said, according to KNSD. The policy is “designed to ensure local resources are focused on addressing the County’s most urgent needs, while protecting families and promoting community trust,” according to Vargas. Supervisor Jim Desmond was...
  • San Diego slammed over plan to buy 3 hotels to house homeless at $400K per room

    04/29/2023 5:37:19 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 48 replies
    nypost.com ^ | April 28, 2023 | Patrick Reilly
    The San Diego Housing Commission is under fire over plans to purchase and convert three hotels into housing for the homeless that comes with a price tag of $400,000 per room. Critics of the plan argue its a waste of taxpayer money that fails to address the root causes of homelessness. “California’s got about a third of the homeless of the entire country. And we keep just throwing more and more dollars at this problem without really getting to the root cause of mental health or alcohol abuse or drug abuse,” San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said on “Fox...
  • San Diego Official: Only Six of 194 ‘Virus Deaths’ Caused by COVID Alone

    05/16/2020 10:44:16 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    Liberty Headlines ^ | Claire Russel | May 15, 2020
    ‘I mean, what number are we trying to get to with those odds?’Gavin Newsom/Photo by XPRIZE Foundation (CC) (Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom’s argument that California needs to extend its shelter-in-place order.“We’ve unfortunately had six pure, solely coronavirus deaths—six out of 3.3 million people,” he said in an interview this week, according to the San Diego Tribune.The vast majority of COVID-19 “deaths” — 194 of them attributed to the virus — in San Diego County resulted from underlying conditions that made patients more vulnerable to the virus, Desmond said.It doesn’t make sense to...