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San Diego pulls migrant tent city plan after media coverage and calls it a mistake

By Tori Richards
Published May 7, 2021 12:03am ET
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San Diego pulls migrant tent city plan after media coverage and calls it a mistake
Migrants from El Salvador start on their way to the United States, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. A third group of migrants from El Salvador had already made it to Guatemala, and on Wednesday a fourth group of about 700 Salvadorans set out from the capital, San Salvador, with plans to walk to the U.S. border, 1,500 miles away. | (AP Photo/Diana Ulloa)

SAN DIEGO — Immediately after the Washington Examiner reported that San Diego County was soliciting farmers for land for a migrant tent city, red-faced officials called the offer a mistake and told recipients to “please disregard” it.

The county officials blamed the state of California and said the term “tent city” was mistakenly used to describe “a soft structure build out” to house a COVID testing center.

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