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President Donald Trump arrived in San Diego today, kicking off an hours-long visit that began with a downtown fundraiser and will end with a quick tour of the border. The trip is his second to the city in 18 months and follows an April visit to the border city of Calexico.

Get up to speed about recent Supreme Court rulings, new immigration policies and the challenges asylum seekers face.

San Diego activists on Monday called for San Clemente High in Orange County to apologize for racial slurs they say were targeted at Lincoln High students at a football game Friday night. Both the Capistrano Unified School District and Lincoln High School said they each are conducting investigations into the allegations. Capistrano Unified spokesman Ryan Burris said Monday his district is reviewing about eight hours of video footage from the stadium, culling social media posts about the event and interviewing students. He expects that will take until about Wednesday or Thursday to complete, he said. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2019-09-16/activists-want-san-clemente-high-to-apologize-after-alleged-racial-slurs-against-lincoln-students

Amid increasing public sentiment for gun control legislation, Mayor Kevin Faulconer withheld his support from a citywide firearms safety measure. The San Diego Safe Storage of Firearms Ordinance was approved by the City Council in July and took effect Thursday. The measure requires guns in homes to be stored in a locked container or disabled by a trigger lock unless they are being carried by or are under the control of the owner or authorized user. It became law without the mayor’s signature. City Attorney Mara Elliott proposed the ordinance, saying it would guard against accidental shootings and keep guns out of the hands of children, people not allowed to have them and “individuals going through personal crises.” Column: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2019-09-12/column-why-faulconer-laid-low-on-san-diegos-gun-storage-law

San Diego County is one step away from a form of rent control for the first time in its history. A statewide measure that would limit yearly rent increases to 5 percent, plus inflation, passed the state Assembly on Wednesday and the state Senate earlier this week. It now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk where he is expected to sign it into law. While the law is a big deal for all of California — becoming only the second state to have a statewide rent cap — it also could be a seismic change for San Diego. America’s Finest City is one of the few large cities in the state not to have any form of rent control, and the county also has no laws for stopping skyrocketing rents. If signed by Newsom, the law would go into effect Jan. 1. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/real-estate/story/2019-09-11/statewide-rent-cap-appears-likely-to-become-law-would-be-a-first-for-san-diego

City leaders have set in motion a 30-year plan for Mission Valley that flips the region’s focus from its roads to the San Diego River and the trolley system. It simultaneously creates room for 50,000 additional residents and 7 million more square feet of commercial development. Tuesday, the City Council voted unanimously to adopt the Mission Valley Community Plan Update and certify the associated environmental impact report. The approval is the last needed in a process that dates to 2015, when city planners first teamed with community members to come up with a new framework for Mission Valley. The land-use and policy document also cleared without a hiccup the city’s Land Use & Housing Committee and the Planning Commission earlier in the summer.

Rep. Susan Davis' retirement in the 53rd District came as a surprise last week, but her friends and political foes agree-- she was a beacon of civility who got things done for San Diego. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2019-09-07/susan-davis-retiring-career-retrospective

The looming threat of a grocery store strike throughout Southern California was dissolving Monday as workers began voting on a new employment contract that appears to appease all parties. Clerks and other grocery staff from Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons are casting votes Monday through Wednesday on the new deal brokered over the weekend between the stores and the workers’ union, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Roughly 47,000 members of seven union chapters across Southern California and parts of Central California are eligible to vote on the new three-year contract. Worker sentiment appears strongly positive on the deal, which secured a bump in wages, healthcare benefits and pension contributions.

Assemblyman Todd Gloria leads Councilwoman Barbara Bry by more than a two-to-one margin among likely voters in the race to become San Diego’s next mayor, according to a Union-Tribune/10 News poll released Friday. Gloria leads Bry by a margin of 31 percent to 15 percent, with community activist Tasha Williamson receiving 8 percent support. The three candidates – all Democrats – are seeking to replace Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer next year. With six months until the March 2020 primary, 46 percent of likely voters are undecided. That’s partly because 39 percent of those polled say they have no opinion yet of Bry, and 23 percent don’t yet have an opinion of Gloria.

The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department has a chronic understaffing problem. Now it has a plan of attack: It aims to add more than 200 firefighters over the next five years. The idea is to offset employees retiring or otherwise leaving the department and to create a relief pool of workers who can fill in for firefighters who call in sick or go on vacation, in an effort to trim skyrocketing overtime costs. But will the hiring spree solve the staffing shortage?

Shannon Glover came from England to San Diego almost 30 years ago for a uniquely American reason: She fell in love with Tom Cruise and “Top Gun.” Now she’s in a dispute that pits the country of her birth against the one she calls home. Her homeowner’s association in Carmel Valley has ordered her to stop flying the British flag, the Union Jack, outside her house. “Only the American flag is permitted,” the Notice of Violation says.

After a year of declines, gang-related crime in San Diego has spiked in recent months with the city logging twice as many homicides as the same time last year and 20 percent more gang-related crimes overall. A spate of shootings, retaliation attacks and other crimes has put the raw number of gang-related crimes this year far ahead of the number through July 2018. Police statistics show there were 463 gang-related crimes committed through June, up from 385 during the same period last year. That increase of 78 crimes is reflected in nearly all categories. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2019-09-02/gang-crimes-spike-in-san-diego

If you have been working in San Diego County for the last decade and feel like you are in worse financial shape now, there might be a reason for that. Sluggish wage growth, exacerbated by rising housing costs, have eroded workers' buying power.Taking into account yearly inflation — which considers the cost of such things as housing, gasoline and food — overall wages in the county have increased just 2 percent from 2008 to 2018. That's according to an analysis by the San Diego Union-Tribune of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com//business/economy/story/2019-08-30/san-diego-restaurant-workers-see-wages-climb

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has opened a new gaming studio in Carlsbad, joining a bubbling hub of developers in the region working on mobile titles. WB Games is best known for its DC and Harry Potter games, including the recent augmented reality title Wizards Unite. Game of Thrones: Conquest is one of the studio’s bigger hits, grossing $214 million in revenue as of May. The new studio, which is making free-to-play mobile games, is hiring new workers across “all disciplines,” from art and design to business and engineering, said Tom Casey, the vice president and studio head at WB Games in Boston. Casey will also be leading the San Diego team. The studio has 15 job openings listed on its website. Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/story/2019-08-27/warner-bros-opens-ncarlsbad-game-studio

A new Union-Tribune analysis of public disclosures related to Ricardo Lara’s successful campaign for state insurance commissioner shows that he accepted more donations from interested parties than was previously known. Lara collected at least $270,000 from 56 different people and companies with ties to the department he now oversees, according to a recent, more thorough examination of contributions reported to the Secretary of State. In some cases, the money came directly from insurers like Aflac or Blue Shield of California. In others, donations came from bail agents regulated by the department.

In the wealthy La Playa enclave of Shelter Island a handful of small piers dot the secluded coastline, relics of a different World War II-era bay. They have offered their upland homeowners, generation after generation, an uncommon San Diego privilege: Backyard parking for their boats. Now the Port of San Diego, which technically owns the piers because they are on public tidelands, is threatening to strip the benefit away as part of its Port Master Plan Update. The piers that start near the Talbot Street entrance to the La Playa Trail and end near Kellogg Beach must be made entirely public or torn down, the document states. Right now, people can walk out on the piers until they reach gates that restrict access to the private floating docks at the end. Only one, the La Playa Yacht Club Pier, can remain as is, meaning partially open to passersby but otherwise restricted to permitted users. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/story/2019-08-24/la-playa-docks-dredging-up-big-controversy-in-remote-shelter-island-area

Welcome to the golden age of scams. Scouring social media accounts and hacked databases for personal information, criminals have created new tools to attack the unwary. While investigators still see phishing attacks, the scattershot come-ons often vaguely addressed to “Dear Sir/Madam,” an increasing number of fraudsters favor “spear phishing,” scams that target individuals with frightening precision.

This month, farmers are reaping San Diego County’s 2019 hop harvest, thousands of pounds of Cascade, Chinook, Cashmere and other varietals. The entire crop is sold out and customers eagerly await shipments of the fragrant conical hop flowers, which look like leafy green cotton balls. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/story/2019-08-17/experts-say-san-diego-county-is-not-hop-country-tell-that-to-local-hop-farmers

The Trump Administration is planning on ending limits on child detention of migrants caught at the border. The Flores agreement is a 1997 court settlement that sets rules for how the government must provide a minimum standard of care for children in custody, and prevents the government from keeping them indefinitely. The Trump Administration's new rules will be formally published Friday, and will be challenged in court.

County Democrats have made their decision on an endorsement in the 2020 Mayoral Race: It’s Assemblyman Todd Gloria. The move was key, as it is likely the next San Diego mayor will be a Democrat, and that party has a significant registration advantage. Gloria is expected to face off against fellow Democrat Barbara Bry in the 2020 general election. As of now, there’s no Republican candidate.

A plan to put a protected bike lane in North Park has drawn criticism from the community. The plan would remove street parking from the popular corridor, and remove 420 parking spaces. Among the detractors are a group of disability advocates who say they’ve been left out of the conversation about how to alter mobility options for a greener future.

Long before a San Diego County jury in July awarded David Collins more than $12 million for brain damage he suffered in Sheriff’s Department custody, a mediator recommended that his civil lawsuit be settled for $3 million, his attorney said. The Board of Supervisors, acting in closed session on advice from county attorneys, rejected the mediator’s suggestion, according to Collins’ lawyer, Robert Vaage. Instead they approved a counter offer their lawyers said was more in line with Collins’ injuries: $500,000, Vaage said. The plaintiff’s attorney considered that a lowball offer and opted to take chances with a jury, which last month returned a verdict worth $12.6 million. Now supervisors are confronting their largest civil judgment in decades, potentially adding to the $167 million in jury awards, settlements and claims San Diego County has paid out over the last 30 years.

The Union-Tribune analyzed available campaign data, which shows that San Diego County residents have donated more than $1M to more than 20 candidates.

Legoland, in its biggest expansion yet of the Carlsbad theme park, announced Thursday that it will open next year a brand new land devoted entirely to the popular Lego movies — complete with a new 4D-style ride. The Lego Movie World, as it’s being called, will encompass a little more than two acres of the park, occupying the former Lego Friends Heartlake City area. Located in the far west side of the park, the area will be entirely reimagined to give park visitors the sense of being immersed within Lego’s cinematic universe — more specifically, The Lego Movie and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Key to that will be its signature ride, Masters of Flight, which will transport its passengers to the Lego movies’ memorable lands, aboard title character Emmet’s triple decker flying couch — or at least that’s what it will feel like.

A new date has been set for the criminal trial of Rep. Duncan Hunter; he will now face trial starting on Jan. 14 instead of Sept. 10, based on a court decision Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. Whelan changed the date after lawyers requested a delay. It will allow time for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider Hunter’s appeal of Whelan’s refusal in July to throw out the indictment. Hunter’s lawyers plan to ask the appeals court to dismiss charges that he spent more than $250,000 in campaign donations on girlfriends, family vacations, tuition for his children and other personal expenses. Hunter’s defense attorney, Gregory Vega, filed a similar motion with Whelan in June arguing that some of the evidence prosecutors gathered about Hunter’s allegedly criminal conduct was protected by the “speech or debate” clause of the U.S. Constitution. Whelan rejected the argument, ruling that it was “wholly without merit.”

San Diego State University President Adela de la Torre has been accused by one of her former deans of saying that education leaders in California cannot obtain or keep top jobs unless they pass a left-leaning “political litmus test.” The accusation, which de La Torre denies, was made by Lance Nail, who stepped down as dean of SDSU’s Fowler College of Business in May, less than two years after his high profile recruitment from Texas Tech University, where he was an innovation expert. Nail said Monday that de la Torre made the political claim when he told her he was leaving for a deanship at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. At the time, he was willing to consider staying at SDSU, which hoped that he would make the most of a $25 million donation the campus received to improve the business school. Nail claims that de la Torre said, “If you’re not a Democrat and you don’t support unions there will be no place for you in education in California.”

San Diego has installed thousands of microphones and cameras in so-called smart streetlamps in recent years as part of a program to assess traffic and parking patterns throughout the city. However, the technology over the last year caught the attention of law enforcement. When police officers picked up Hernandez last summer, they had never used a streetlamp camera in an investigation. Today, such video has been viewed in connection with more than 140 police investigations. Officers have increasingly turned to the footage to help crack cases, as frequently as 20 times a month. Police department officials have said that the video footage has been crucial in roughly 40 percent of these cases.

Last weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton accentuated a painful fact of 21st century life: the lurking fear that a lethal threat could erupt at any public gathering. Anxiety is soaring among the faithful (domestic terrorists have attacked houses of worship), shoppers (malls have been shot up), Hispanics (targeted in El Paso), concertgoers (remember the Las Vegas massacre?), parents and teachers (school shootings have come a long, lethal way since Columbine in 1999). Everywhere, it seems, there are signs of a society under siege.

Migrants say they've become targets for abuse. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2019-08-06/asylum-seekers-report-theft-exploitation-in-mexicalis-migrant-shelters

At build out in 2037, San Diego State University’s Mission Valley campus will create 45,174 new car trips per weekday on area roads, according to the latest traffic analysis. As many as 19,099 more vehicle trips could be added to the mix when the university’s 35,000-person stadium reaches maximum capacity for sporting events or concerts. The new transportation figures were included in the university’s draft environmental impact report, which was published Monday. The study, required by state law, considers the effects of the university’s proposed development plan for the 132 acres of land it plans to purchase from the city of San Diego. The report is being circulated for a 60-day public review and comment period that ends on Oct. 3.

Five Democratic presidential candidates who visited San Diego on Monday honed in on gun safety, healthcare, immigration reform and hateful rhetoric as key topics during the annual UnidosUS conference. Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and Kamala Harris of California and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro took turns on stage at the annual event, which drew thousands of people to promote the Latino community. The candidates all expressed frustration with the lack of Senate Republican action on proposed gun control legislation and the growing problems of white nationalist violence and domestic terrorism on display last weekend. “We cannot fix a problem if we refuse to name a problem,” Biden said. “This is white nationalism, this is white supremacy, this is about hate.... Mr. President, it is long past time you stood up it. This is hatred, pure and simple, and it is being fueled by rhetoric so divisive that it is causing people to die.”

The massacre of 20 people Saturday by a man who traveled 650 miles to a Walmart in El Paso, reportedly with the intention of shooting “as many Mexicans as possible,” marks what appears to be one of the deadliest hate crimes ever against Latinos.

Even though the war crimes trial of Edward Gallager is over, and he has been cleared of nearly all charges, the trial still looms over the Navy. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump rescinded the medals of the servicemen who were on the prosecution against Gallagher and the top admiral dismissed all charges of another SEAL tied to the case.

Students and staff at Garrison Elementary School in Oceanside will be relocated to San Luis Rey School when school starts in August because of sinkholes that appeared on campus earlier this year, the Oceanside Unified School District Board voted unanimously Wednesday. Preschoolers will be moved to either Del Rio or Libby Elementary Schools, and families who don’t want to move their students can request school of choice transfers to other campuses in the district. The board decided to move the students as it investigates what is causing the sinkholes, and determines whether they can repair the damage and renovate the site. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/story/2019-07-31/oceanside-school-students-to-be-relocated-because-of-sinkholes-garrison-elementary

San Diego approved two much-anticipated pieces of housing legislation Tuesday: the city’s first incentive focused on housing for moderate-income residents, and new regulations that aim to boost construction of units for low-income residents. The City Council unanimously approved the new law focused on moderate-income residents, defined by the city as families making 80 percent to 120 percent of the region’s median income of $86,300 for a family of four. The measure would allow developers to build larger projects with more units if they agree to reserve some of the units for moderate-income workers like nurses, teachers and firefighters. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/story/2019-07-30/new-san-diego-laws-aim-to-spur-housing-for-low-income-moderate-income-residents

In a new podcast series from The Los Angeles Times Studios, join along in the journey of how San Diego journalist Joanne Fayron found the identity of an unknown man who has been in a vegetative state since 1999. Learn more and subscribe here: https://www.latimes.com/projects/room-20-podcast/

Earlier this month, Southern California Edison — the operators of the now-shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant — resumed transferring heavy canisters filled with spent fuel assemblies from wet storage pools to a newly constructed dry storage facility on the plant’s premises. Putting aside the criticism from some advocacy groups about restarting transfers at all, the move brings up a larger question: Where will the waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, known as SONGS for short, eventually go? Some of the options are fairly well-known, such as reviving a controversial site in Nevada, while others are more obscure, such as a proposal to send the waste down deep boreholes.

If all goes according to plan, patrons of the San Diego Symphony’s annual outdoor concert series will next summer find that the usual pop-up venue has been replaced with an ultramodern, permanent structure. Wednesday, Port of San Diego commissioners unanimously approved a long-term ground lease with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association for operation of a 3.68-acre venue on the 10.8-acre Embarcadero Marina Park South site. The action follows the board’s December approval of a coastal permit, and clears the way for construction of the $45 million project, which includes around $3 million in improvements to the surrounding waterside park. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/story/2019-07-24/symphonys-permanent-home-on-the-bay-could-be-ready-for-2020-summer-pops

Sixteen Marines were arrested at Camp Pendleton Thursday morning during battalion formation for various illegal activities ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses, the 1st Marine Division said in a statement. The Marine Corps said information from a previous human smuggling investigation led to the arrests. On July 3, two Marines — Byron Darnell Law II and David Javier Salazar-Quintero — were arrested for allegedly transporting unauthorized immigrants as part of a smuggling operation. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2019-07-25/16-camp-pendleton-marines-arrested-on-human-smuggling-drug-related-activities SEALs: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2019-07-24/san-diego-based-seal-team-7-platoon-sent-home-from-iraq-for-deterioration-of-good-order-and-discipline

Mayor Kevin Faulconer has appeared recently in conservative news outlets and on pop-culture radio shows where he is being lauded for something that would have been unimaginable just two years ago: progress on combating homelessness. The mayor was a rising political star after his 2014 election and was considered a leading Republican candidate for governor a couple of years later, but that changed dramatically when San Diego was thrown into crisis by the 2017 hepatitis A outbreak linked to homelessness that killed 20 people and sickened nearly 600 across the region. At least on the air, it seems like a new day for Faulconer. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2019-07-23/nearly-sunk-by-homeless-hepatitis-crisis-faulconer-now-sought-for-advice

The developer of an East Village highrise apartment building wants to house its poorer renters in a separate building next door. Even as affordable housing advocates are praising the developer for building much-needed low-income housing, there are some who suggest the proposal sounds like segregation. Canadian developer Pinnacle International's plans envision a separate entrance for low-income renters at the proposed Pinnacle Pacific Heights complex that would not allow them access to amenities like a roof deck and pool for wealthier renters. If approved, the project would mark the first time a downtown developer has put low-income units in a different building as opposed to incorporating them into the same complex. The proposed market-rate tower, between A and B streets on 11th Avenue, is 32 stories and includes 387 housing units. A smaller, eight-story building would have 58 low-income apartments and be adjacent to the main tower.

A proposed observation tower at the edge of Pacific Highway is a polarizing symbol of change that could make or break the larger, $2.4 billion redevelopment effort planned for downtown’s Central Embarcadero. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/story/2019-07-19/seaport-san-diego-tower-is-like-nothing-else-on-californias-coast-thats-the-problem

If you’re under the impression that San Diego Comic-Con has sold its soul, ditching comic books in favor of Hollywood, video games and “Comic-Con exclusive” toys, listen to Bob Bretall. “There are more comics at this Con than any other four conventions put together,” said Bretall, 57, a Mission Viejo resident who holds the Guinness World Record for most unique volumes (103,000). “The people who say the Con isn’t about comics any more, they don’t know what they are talking about.” Comic-Con, which ends its 50th run Sunday, is actually 10 or 12 different pop culture shows occurring simultaneously. Hall H, the San Diego Convention Center’s cavernous ballroom, is dominated by A-List actors and directors. Ballroom 20 is Ground Zero for TV premieres. In a galaxy far, far away — the exhibit hall’s north end — there’s a hive of buying and selling, the New York Stock Exchange trading floor for candy-colored publications that once sold for 10 cents. Kids’ stuff? If you’re a comics collector here, you’ll need a huge allowance.

Two horses died Thursday morning in a freak training accident at Del Mar, track officials confirmed. Mac McBride, director of media for Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, said one of the horses, Carson Valley, was an unraced 3-year-old trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert. The other horse, a 2-year-old named Charge a Bunch, was trained by Carla Gaines. Jockey Assael Espinoza — who was riding Carson Valley — was transported to a local hospital, Del Mar said in a statement. “He’s OK, he got lucky,” said Brian Beach, Espinoza’s agent. “It’s just a mild sprain of the back. He wasn’t riding [Thursday], so he will rest up and hopefully be able to ride this weekend.” Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/horse-racing/story/2019-07-18/del-mar-horses-die-freak-training-accident

Confusion and uncertainty loomed over the first day of the Trump administration’s new policy that limits the number of asylum seekers allowed to enter the United States through the southern border. The Trump administration announced the new asylum policy on Monday afternoon. By Tuesday morning, hundreds of migrants — mostly from Honduras, Guatemala, Ghana, Cameroon and Mexico — anxiously waited in line to see if their names would be called from an ever-growing wait-list of those ready to enter the U.S. Mexican immigration officials transported 12 people — including those from Venezuela and Haiti — to the United States about 8:40 a.m. at the San Ysidro port of entry. Under the new set of restrictions, asylum seekers who pass through another country first would be deemed ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border. That includes most of the thousands of migrants who have been waiting to cross into the U.S. in Tijuana for as many as six months.

A trio of downtown San Diego streets recently got new paint jobs — exciting bicyclists and other car-free travelers, but confusing some motorists. The changes, which include painted islands, green crosswalks and plastic bollards, are Phase 1 of the city’s ambitious plan to create miles of protected bicycle lanes across downtown — an effort that aims to boost safety and fight climate change. The 30-year plan, approved by the City Council in 2016, will transform dozens of vehicle lanes and some on-street parking into miles of protected cycling lanes and pedestrian promenades. But the changes being implemented now focus on three roadways: J Street, Beech Street and Sixth Avenue. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2019-07-14/downtown-san-diego-streets-make-way-for-protected-bike-lanes-causing-excitement-confusion

Soon San Diego will hog the pop culture spotlight as the 50th Comic Con International begins. From humble beginnings celebrating the golden age of comics, to today’s star-studded extravaganza, San Diego Comic-Con is now a celebration of entertainment in nearly every form: Movies, TV, video games and of course comic books. This week, we at the San Diego Union-Tribune will give you an inside look into all things pop culture— and teaming up with the U-T's other podcast The Conversation First up, reporters Phil Molnar and Charlie Clark discuss survival tips and coverage plans for Comic-Con with Daniel Wheaton and Abby Hamblin. Then, at 22:50 Peter Rowe discusses the history of Comic-Con. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/story/2019-07-11/50-shades-of-comic-con-what-weve-gained-and-lost-in-five-decades-of-pop-culture-celebrations

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the suit filed by family of Fridoon Nehad should not have been dismissed because of questions over whether the shooting was justified. The ruling also opens the way to explore how SDPD handles reviews of police shootings. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2019-07-11/appeals-court-revices-lawsuit-over-controversial-2015-sdpd-shooting-in-midway

This weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raids will begin. This stems from a presidential tweet last month when President Donald Trump said he wanted to quote “deport millions” of undocumented immigrants. Now that the organization has had time to prepare, the raids are said to have a broader scope that originally planned.

The wait list for migrants in Tijuana to request asylum in the United States has grown to the longest it has ever been, even longer than the line that grew right after a large caravan arrived in November. About 9,150 names are pending on the list, according to data documented by volunteers with Al Otro Lado, a legal services nonprofit that supports migrants in Tijuana. The people to whom those names belong have been waiting upwards of three months in many cases for their turn to ask the U.S. for protection at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2019-07-09/tijuana-asylum-notebook-reaches-highest-count-on-record-migrants-in-line-protest-long-waits