San Diego County addresses looming impacts as end of Title 42 nears

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors addresses the end of Title 42 and the looming local impacts as thousands of migrants eagerly await to land in U.S. soil.

San Diego County bracing for what's to come with the impending end of the COVID-era policy initiated by the Trump Administration during the dawn of the pandemic.

“We don’t know where we are with the numbers that we’ll have, I think there’s a lot of misinformation about what can and cannot happen," Chairwoman Nora Vargas said.

Part of the meeting Wednesday included the county's outreach to handle the surging influx calling for long-term solutions in a letter to the Biden Administration.

"What I’m trying to share with you is that as a County we’re going to do what we can to coordinate and work with the federal government, so they understand the impact it’s having on all of us," Vargas said. “We need to be able to increase the migrant shelter capacity, that’s our message to the federal government.”

Meanwhile, hundreds await food, shelter and warmth between the U.S.-Mexico border for nearly a week, leaving ...