San Diego Using Huge Convention Center To House Unaccompanied Migrant Children

On Monday, due to the dramatic rise in unaccompanied minor immigrant children at the southern border of the United States, the city of San Diego, California announced that it would use the massive San Diego Convention Center to house many of them.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and San Diego County Board of Supervisors chair Nathan Fletcher acknowledged that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could use the center as a temporary shelter.

The children are not permitted to leave the convention center until reunification occurs.

Which has no scheduled events because of the pandemic, will be used to house children up to age 17 for a total of 30 to 35 days until they can be reunified with their families or processed for immigration," the Times of San Diego noted.

There were 18,945 family members and 9,297 unaccompanied children encountered in February - an increase of 168% and 63%, respectively, from the month before, according to the Pew Research Center.

After the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring 2020, the convention center opened the 1,300-bed Operation Shelter to Home on April 1 in order to avert the spread of the virus in the bridge shelters operating in two large tents and Golden Hall, as the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Earlier this month, the city of San Diego announced that the roughly 700 people at the temporary homeless shelter in the convention center would be moved out.

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