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U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 9,300 people in San Diego and Imperial counties since January and nearly 2,000 in July alone, according to newly released data from the Deportation Data Project.

The new data show how despite the change in immigration enforcement tactics under new Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign remains in full force.

Mullin replaced former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in March.

While enforcement tactics under Noem were flashy and combative and defined by occupation-style campaigns in Minnesota, Chicago and LA, Mullin is taking the opposite approach. In confirmation hearings he said ICE would be less visible, and pledged to keep the agency out of the headlines.

All told, federal immigration agents arrested nearly 18,000 people in San Diego and Imperial Counties from the start of the second Trump administration in January 2025 through Aug. 6, according to the data.

“That’s 18,000 families that have been separated, that have had their lives turned upside down,” said Benjamin Prado, an activist with Union del Barrio — an organization that conducts community patrols warning people of immigration enforcement.

Read the rest of the story here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2026/08/27/ice-arrests-surge-in-san-diego-even-as-the-trump-administration-takes-more-low-key-approach

The San Diego Colombian community is answering the call to help earthquake victims in Quibdo, Colombia. After hearing news of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that shook the city and seeing images of collapsed buildings with people still beneath the rubble, Adriana Brunner, a board member of MANA de San Diego, wanted to help.

“I wish I could be there to pick one of those rocks, but I cannot be there," she said. "It's very hard.”

Brunner lived in Quibdo before she moved to the U.S. 

Since Monday, she’s been on the phone and social media trying to raise funds and collect items for the relief effort, including emergency kits, clothes and diapers. She’s received positive responses from local businesses and other organizations in the community.

Brunner said the best way to help right now is to donate money to reputable organizations supporting the relief effort. These are the organizations she said are leading the effort:

• Comité Intergremial del Valle del Cauca
• Cruz Roja Colombiana
• Banco de Alimentos de Colombia (Cali)

The House of Colombia is also raising funds for the relief effort.

You can read the full story here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/living/2026/08/14/san-diegans-lend-a-helping-hand-to-colombian-earthquake-victims

And, if you'd like more resources on how you can help victims in Colombia, check out the following link: https://www.kpbs.org/news/public-safety/2026/08/11/earthquake-in-colombia-what-you-can-do-to-help

For the Toros de Tijuana, the whole game day experience is as important as the game itself. It's an immersive and chaotic experience that brings fans from both sides of the border.

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At first glance, San Diego's Mission Hills neighborhood looks like a suburb in the middle of the city. But look closer and you'll see a lot more than just single-family homes.

Scattered amongst the quiet streets and houses with big yards are a number of duplexes, granny flats and small apartment buildings. Most were built a century ago, when the neighborhood was served by the city's electric streetcar network.

"They really add up to providing a lot of housing in a small space, which makes it a much better neighborhood than something that's sprawled out all over the place," said Mike Stepner, a resident of Mission Hills and retiree who worked in the San Diego City Planning Department for 27 years.

Until recently, much of the neighborhood's small-scale multifamily housing would have been illegal to build. That's because in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, San Diego downzoned huge swaths of its urban core, effectively banning apartments in some of the city's most walkable neighborhoods.

Read more here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2026/07/28/how-downzoning-shaped-san-diego-and-pushed-growth-into-the-suburbs

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